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Microsoft will remain strong in the average office, where employers would rather avoid any special employee training for "nonstandard" products such as Linux (and where they get a good sized discount for buying Microsoft products in bulk). Microsoft also has contracts with various government agencies. My coworkers and I would rather use anything but Microsoft Word (that thrice-cursed, bug-ridden pile of...), but we are not allowed to use any other word processing program on our government-owned computers.
As for Apple posing a greater threat than ever: first, my college roommate kept telling me that same thing almost ten years ago and it just didn't materialize, and second, I just can't see the average company paying for both Microsoft and Apple operating systems as well as training their employees to use both. As long as most companies rely on simple databases and word processing, Microsoft will continue to dominate the market.
Vista may be garbage, but XP is actually pretty good. I think it's more likely that Microsoft will simply dump Vista (like they did ME) and push a new XP-like OS before Apple's seven year old OS X is widely adopted, no matter how good OS X is.
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Daniel Butler
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Yes, but with the current generation of kids growing up with computers, training will be unnecessary. Kids are growing up learning both Mac and Windows (Windows at home, Mac at school - since they have a lot of contracts with educational institutions and offer discounts to schools). Again, certainly not by tomorrow. But soon enough. And just using Linux for common office tasks shouldn't require any training if you're familiar with either Winshit or MacOSX (or even previous MacOSs). The GUI may not be *exactly* the same, but it's based on the same principles. And if you're familiar with *both,* as the office workers of 2018 will be, it should hardly require thought. Especially once the application is open - File, Edit, View...it's the same across all three OSs.
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Well here's an idea, don't allow HD YouTube videos. If people want to see Chocolate Rain in HD, than they're a mixture of stupid and pathetic.
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20 households = one 2008 total internet value?
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Daniel Butler
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Heh. God. That goes up now on my list right next to Bush saying the problem with the French was they had no word for "entrepreneur."
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