Re:Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
by crdoconnor on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:18AM
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>Linux on the desktop on the other hand...
Will happen when Microsoft's ability to strong-arm hardware manufacturers using restrictive OEM licenses is diminished.
MS actually seems to prefer a scorched earth policy (destroying the laptop/desktop markets entirely) to allowing Linux to gain anything more than a token foothold.
We can see this by the way they scuppered 'desktop linux' by co-opting and ultimately destroying the netbook market in 2007 (by enforcing OEM licensing terms that crippled netbook specs - prohibiting giving them anything more than 2GB of RAM for instance).
We can see it again by the way they pushed UEFI / secureboot on manufacturers - a clear attempt at creating Windows lock-in that largely worked.
2007 would have been the year of the desktop were it not for this anti-competitive behavior by MS.
Will happen when Microsoft's ability to strong-arm hardware manufacturers using restrictive OEM licenses is diminished.
MS actually seems to prefer a scorched earth policy (destroying the laptop/desktop markets entirely) to allowing Linux to gain anything more than a token foothold.
We can see this by the way they scuppered 'desktop linux' by co-opting and ultimately destroying the netbook market in 2007 (by enforcing OEM licensing terms that crippled netbook specs - prohibiting giving them anything more than 2GB of RAM for instance).
We can see it again by the way they pushed UEFI / secureboot on manufacturers - a clear attempt at creating Windows lock-in that largely worked.
2007 would have been the year of the desktop were it not for this anti-competitive behavior by MS.