Summary: How to move forward from here; feedback welcomed
THE Vista 8 failure has been shown everywhere we look. It is a mainstream position to say that Windows monopoly is dying. There is no denying the fact that Vista 8 is an apt name; the difference is, the public learned its lessons from Vista. Microsoft is already given buyer's remorse to the few who bought Surface and the prices remain too high. Android has more applications and much better prices. All that Microsoft can at this stage now is distort the market with patents, jointly with Apple and other Linux foes.
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mcinsand
2012-12-04 21:50:40
I wouldn't let up on the duopoly yet, though. They will get more dangerous and even more evil (if that's possible) as they get more desperate. Especially as Applesoft continues to degenerate into a pair of software trolls, attention needs to be kept on where they are setting litigative traps. NTFS, Mono, and rounded corners all need to be kept under the light until the issues are completely resolved. Likewise, the Samsung/Apple trial and appeals are not over. We can see how this one wraps up, but I doubt that Apple will sit quietly unless they can find another biased judge and dishonest jury foreman.
Back to Freedom, though, in that I do think that tech freedom will be an ongoing struggle. The computing arena has broadened from just desktop/laptop to tablets and cellphones. My smartphone is every bit as much a computer as the desktop that I had 6-10 years ago, and lock-in is something we will have to address in the cellphone market. Thankfully, the SCOTUS made one incremental step in the right direction when they affirmed a consumer's right to jailbreak a cellphone. We need to continue to push for the rights to hardware that we purchase and the software that we want to run on that hardware.
Anyway, just my thoughts.
Cheers.