On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Without trying to sound pessimistic, I get the feeling that Linux is lagging behind M$ and at a time when its chances of catching up were the best. The gaps that Linux had created in the M$ environment through alternate compatibility appear to be getting slowly filled by M$ through the process of vendor lock-in.
Microsoft is not longer the dominant force in computing for consumers. For example, Adobe flash has near 100% coverage on windows desktops but that did not help it and it Adobe is gradually moving to html5.
Reason was, it did not work on iOS and performance is pretty bad in Android and OSX (I have an Android Tablet with dual core 1 GHz CPU and Mac with 2 Xeon CPUs, flash is slow on both) .
So, vendors have to make sure that products work not only on Windows but also on other operating systems. For example,
1. Games Like Angry birds (Now available for iOS/Android/Html5/Windows Mobile) 2. Toolkits like Webkit. It works on pretty much every OS
Another good this is, ALL other platforms are now UNIX. So, it i easy to write code like Chrome/Firefox that would work across OS.