Free seems to be the future for Windows, as they're the black sheep right now. Everyone else is offering a free OS. Yeah, there are Red Hat support contracts and Oracle Solaris, but I think I made my point. Microsoft is struggling over what to do in the vast new world shifting away from Microsoft, and their clueless new management team doesn't seem to be helping much. If it were, Windows 8.1 Update 1 would at least have the option of giving the user a Start menu, but apparently that was too much to ask for! With Linux, the user can choose KDE, Gnome, Unity, Xfce, LXDE, and others to fulfill their requirements. With Windows, you are stuck with the infantile shit that they foist upon the user, and if you don't like it, tough! Want to sideload apps? You can, but not before jumping through a bunch of hoops and potentially having to buy a fucking license from big brother!
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1882 ... -app-storeMS's management team consists of a bunch of morons that can't discern their heads from their asses, and they're obviously overpaid because they can't make a decision worth a flying fuck!
Let me spell it out for Microsoft since they seem to have such difficulty understanding evolving markets and technology: charge enterprise users for your enterprise Windows versions, because they'll still be using Windows for a long time if it doesn't completely suck and have an infantile UI. Give home users your OS for free. You know that many fortune 500 companies have the money to pay for Windows, and it's what they want to use, as we all know certain specialized applications won't run on Linux. And even if that weren't the case, which many times it's not, big business sometimes thinks that Windows is just better than anything else. So, MS has a big market to sell to, and what do they do? Put a tablet interface on the desktop, and still won't let it go? Then they alienate developers by trying to squash the desktop and take a chunk of their income by forcing them to put their application in the locked down crappy ass Orwellian app store? Give me a fucking break! It's fucking simple! Microsoft is becoming an irrelevant company, and their managerial decisions are just speeding up their own demise. Seriously, what a bunch of idiots. It's like the rich kid that inherits hundreds of millions of dollars from his parents, and has the intellect of a dish sponge.
