Son_of_Perdition
Senior Member
Have an ongoing argument with my grandson, 4th year engineering student (Applications Engineer) about his rapture with MS & the future of technology. I was reading about Dell's latest announcement
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastru...ng-with-ubuntu-preinstalled-160311222341.html
And went on to read this article about Iot (Internet of Things)
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2016/1/open-source-programming-digital-future-5
Google, Facebook are major players in the open source field, Microsoft's cloud is driven by Linux & there is a few articles about MS's new attempts to patent/copywrite & corner the market of open source applications, just like they did when they destroyed WordPerfect, Lotus & Dbase III. They will have to go some to match the resources of Google & Facebook but you have to give them an 'A' for effort. Google's Android world is gaining in popularity everyday. It will definitely be interesting over the next 5 years.
Another thing I get a kick out of, the TV ads for 'Cortana' with the two ladies & their bugs. GoogleTalk came out 2 years prior to Win10 & Cortana and is rated higher in usability than either Apple's version or Cortana.
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastru...ng-with-ubuntu-preinstalled-160311222341.html
And went on to read this article about Iot (Internet of Things)
https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2016/1/open-source-programming-digital-future-5
Google, Facebook are major players in the open source field, Microsoft's cloud is driven by Linux & there is a few articles about MS's new attempts to patent/copywrite & corner the market of open source applications, just like they did when they destroyed WordPerfect, Lotus & Dbase III. They will have to go some to match the resources of Google & Facebook but you have to give them an 'A' for effort. Google's Android world is gaining in popularity everyday. It will definitely be interesting over the next 5 years.
Another thing I get a kick out of, the TV ads for 'Cortana' with the two ladies & their bugs. GoogleTalk came out 2 years prior to Win10 & Cortana and is rated higher in usability than either Apple's version or Cortana.
