2016-01-10 21:33:10
last modified: 2016-01-10 21:35:23
This whole saga has all the hallmarks of Betamax V VHS in the old "Video Format Wars".
In many respects, it matters not which is "Best" ..... we have long passed the Tipping Point on that one. Love it, like it, or hate it, the path is irrevocably set down the Windows Route, and thats not changing on a Worldwide Strategic Level ..... because far too much investment, time and energy has gone into the "Windows Route" by Industry.
The undoubted merits of Ubuntu et all, are hardly in dispute ... Nontheless, neither are the merits of a "Windows World", these things are never clear-cut, no matter the self justification that goes on. To change now at a strategic level away from Windows is not a practical reality for Commerce; not the least because the "Ubuntu" World and its like competitors in the non-Windows World, do not have the driven Mass Adoption of Windows nor its unified standards (far too many non-windows variants exist), and frankly never will have that adoption level, because Windows driven by more than Home Computing usage. As Apple discovered to their Strategic Cost, trumpeting purest technical superiority is not enough, no matter the warm feeling created...... and here they now are, with Microsoft driving the very Base Core Kernel of the Apple computing Kernel and Networking et al whatever is seen on the surface.
The future ?? It will be Windows unless the non-Windows world stop trying to be "The One" arguing over technicalities, and stop trying to prove "they" are the non-Windows "future". Commerce is driven by more than technicalities, it has other priorities. The latter do not extent in arguing over which non-Windows variant is best, much less arguing over how that undefined non-global version is going to "take over the world".