Sysadmin here (well, security admin, but I do a lot of sysadmin stuff). Every time we build a new server, if it can function while being Linux, we make it Linux. More and more end user applications are becoming browser based, where the OS doesn’t matter all that much. I see a time in the near future where we will be able to switch. I think the biggest thing we’re waiting for is for the online version of MS Office to become feature-complete. Once MS does that, they’ve shot themselves in the foot.
I can actually imagine a scenario where MS actually wants that to happen. They don’t really make money on windows sales anymore (comparatively to their other products). So this could free up quite a lot of resources and reallocate them elsewhere.
The majority of home consumers basically just use browser services anyways.
Sysadmin here (well, security admin, but I do a lot of sysadmin stuff). Every time we build a new server, if it can function while being Linux, we make it Linux. More and more end user applications are becoming browser based, where the OS doesn’t matter all that much. I see a time in the near future where we will be able to switch. I think the biggest thing we’re waiting for is for the online version of MS Office to become feature-complete. Once MS does that, they’ve shot themselves in the foot.
I can actually imagine a scenario where MS actually wants that to happen. They don’t really make money on windows sales anymore (comparatively to their other products). So this could free up quite a lot of resources and reallocate them elsewhere.
The majority of home consumers basically just use browser services anyways.