![]() ![]() My older other laptop is an HP that came with Windows XP, was upgraded to Vista, broke horribly crashing and blue screens just about every day, then had Linux Mint installed and it's run with no issues for the last 5 years. I do have one problem, which may be my fault more than the machines. Just to add to you're point, I literally just bought a laptop from System76 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed. I mean, how else are they going to compete? that everyone uses, locked into their one platform. I would expect over the next couple of years many attempts at embrace, extend, extinguish to get. So for the long term, if Microsoft isn't scared, they should be. Unlocking the browser from the OS is the first step - causing a movement en-masse to a different operating system (or systems) is the next logical step. When the user community is not dependent on a browser that's locked to a particular OS, the OS becomes less important, because you can run Chrome or Firefox or Opera on a lot of different platforms. ![]() So why would Microsoft care? I can think of one reason - as has been pointed out by others, the more time people spend in a browser, the less they care about the underlying OS. IE no longer drives sales on Windows, for a few reasons - (a) the perception that IE is not as secure as other browsers, (b) Most competing browsers run on Windows, (c) the perception (less now) that IE is way behind in technology compared to other browsers. Microsoft used IE and the fact that a lot of broken code on the net would only run on IE to drive sales on Windows. ![]()
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