Linked by David Adams on Tue 26th Dec 2006 17:48 UTC
An Economist.com editorial examines the OS lay of the land on the eve of Vista's release, and makes an interesting case for why Windows "rules the world". Do you agree? We report, you decide.
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What really keeps them in place is the vertical market. My last job was with a regional authority in the UK. They amount of specialized/bespoke software they had was huge. Some software was incredibly old (Win16 + DOS!) and utterly necessary to the organization as a whole.
I suspect that this is true of a number of Enterprise environments and even true of some specialized SME's.
Whilst Linux is pretty close to scratching every itch in the mainstream, certain environments like the UK Public Sector will remain 'doze for a long time.
This is why the fabled Munich Linux migration is a joke. The desktops are prolly Linux with ICA/RDP to get any work done.
I seriously doubt it. The UK public sector is the largest single user of Microsoft software outside the US. So their tie in is probably worse than anyone else's. Despite that, I can think of several places (France, Germany, to name two) with comparable populations and less tie-in to MS. In fact the population of Germany is almost a third higher than that of the UK, and that's going by 1990 figures on Germany and 2006 figures on the UK.