| Could future of computing be just computer clients leveraging the cloud compute? If services like Google Stadia becomes as ubiquitous as email, no average user would bat an eye on required web login. You want to render a complete VR map of a nation? Maybe you require petabytes of ram and compute power of a today's server farm? Worry not, your phone weighing 140g can do it, all by leveraging cloud compute. Even if this future doesn't materialize, incentives for MS are clear and this requirement shall open up more integration opportunities than before. Also there is no competition. Linux has the following problems which have largely remained unsolved, since the community fails to even recognize them as an issue. 1. No 1080p or 4K video playback on Netflix. 2. Not even 720p video playback on Amazon Prime Video. 3. Games take a performance hit. 4. Single click installations of .deb almost never works.
.exe and .dmg are a much better user experience. 5. Ubuntu store is broken. It sometime loads, most times it doesn't. 6. Absence of Adobe. 7. An average user is expected to open up terminal when things go wrong and thing often do go wrong. An OS company can divide their customers into Developers, Video/Audio Editors, Content Consumption, Office work and Gamers. Linux only and only caters to us Developers. |