This has come along like clockwork. Every year since 1999: “This is the year of Linux on the desktop!!”
No, its not. Linux is a server OS. On the desktop, it appeals to hobbyists. Without real software developers like Adobe and Microsoft, it has no appeal to ordinary users. (Don’t tell me that there are Linux substitutes for popular mainstream applications, because they are junk.”
I’ve been using Windows 8 full time since the RTM came out in the summer. Windows 8 leapfrogs over Apple and Linux offerings in terms of innovation, functionality, and beauty. Its the best OS I’ve ever used.
If you are suggesting Windows 8 is superior to OSX, then I suggest that you have never used the latter.
You actually like that mess of a Start Screen?
“Windows 8 leapfrogs over Apple and Linux offerings in terms of innovation, functionality, and beauty. Its the best OS I’ve ever used.”
You obviously don’t work in a business or technical environment.
Windows 7 was a reasonable OS, which minimized shortcomings.
Windows 8 is a solid OS with an atrocious UI. I don’t know how they got Metro past even preliminary user testing.