The Battle has just Started

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You ever hear that saying about Porn decides which format wins in vhs/dvd/bluray/ect.

Whether that is true or not, I can tell you that the business world will decide which operating system wins, and I do not see anyone taking windows away anytime soon. Hell look how popular mac's are, yet they are still dwarfed.

Most all applications that people use at their work work best on windows. You have to lots of times go through many hoops and hurdles to use it on a mac or send a file from one person using mac to another windows, ect when using the variuous programs jobs use.

Have you ever been around when a company updated to a new windows? Or hell just a new version of the program people use everday. It's not easy. People do not like change. It takes months and months of prep work and making sure every program you use works with the new update and you won't run into problems. You can't have your 100+ employees all of a sudden not able to do their work cause of an IT problem with a new OS.

everywhere I work, the updates for programs are like 2 updates behind current. They like to make sure all the kinks and bugs are out before switching. Don't even think about the OS. A couple years ago the place I was was using windows xp still.

SO short answer. NO, Linux will not become commonplace.

Could it fill a few laptops, tablets or phones. Sure. There are multiple OS already on those things, depending on the brand that makes said device. But Windows is going nowhere.