It seems to me that most bloggers talking about the decline of Windows seems to be looking at things from the standpoint of an informed developer or consumer highly in touch with technology and modern innovation.
What these folks don't realize is that they only make up a wee bit of the marketplace using Windows, and it's going to take a lot more than talking above the heads of Lawyers, Doctors and Educators, using jargon only the blogger understands to convince people to make the transition to an operating system. Sure enough, Dell rolled out a line of machines that powered Linux but one company doing this isn't going to change minds either.
People need to be immersed in other technologies, they need to know how they work, why they matter and how to make the applications to their operations. Until then, Windows is going to enjoy the room it has in the operating system market because quite frankly: Windows just works for certain people, and those certain people make up the largest part of the market.
Sure, Vista was a flubb, but a lot of people toughed it out and eventually got used to it because they have no clue how to install other operating systems. And even though installing Ubuntu is as simple as point and click, the barrier to entry is just too high because as far as they are concerned, they'd rather not bother messing with it for fear they may break something and never be able to use their computers again.
Someone link me to a blog that talks about the other side of Windows user experience, and maybe you'll have something worth talking.
What these folks don't realize is that they only make up a wee bit of the marketplace using Windows, and it's going to take a lot more than talking above the heads of Lawyers, Doctors and Educators, using jargon only the blogger understands to convince people to make the transition to an operating system. Sure enough, Dell rolled out a line of machines that powered Linux but one company doing this isn't going to change minds either.
People need to be immersed in other technologies, they need to know how they work, why they matter and how to make the applications to their operations. Until then, Windows is going to enjoy the room it has in the operating system market because quite frankly: Windows just works for certain people, and those certain people make up the largest part of the market.
Sure, Vista was a flubb, but a lot of people toughed it out and eventually got used to it because they have no clue how to install other operating systems. And even though installing Ubuntu is as simple as point and click, the barrier to entry is just too high because as far as they are concerned, they'd rather not bother messing with it for fear they may break something and never be able to use their computers again.
Someone link me to a blog that talks about the other side of Windows user experience, and maybe you'll have something worth talking.