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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I wouldn't be surprised to see Android tablets overtake iPads in marketshare within a few years, but any OS attempting to surpass Windows on desktops and laptops is in for a very tough ride.
ChromeOS probably has the best shot by selling really cheap hardware combined with cheap/free cloud-based apps. I'm sure there's a pretty large percentage of home computer users like my mother who can do everything they need with a Chromebook.
That said, it's extremely unlikely that Windows will lose out in the corporate market anytime soon. As I mentioned earlier, companies have billions invested in software that only runs on Windows, and the cost associated with re-training employees to use a completely different OS and application suite would be prohibitively expensive. It might be economically feasible to eliminate Windows through application virtualization technologies like Citrix or ThinApp, but we're many years away before most businesses will consider switching to a full VDI environment.
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This is so true. We are deploying Windows 7/Office 2010 from XP/Office 2003 this summer and I am dreading dealing with users. Of course my users are all middle aged social workers, so computers are not their forte.