Lately I’ve started to notice how far behind Microsoft is getting in terms of usability, performance, stability and ingenuity. It is time it died in the personal computing business and in corporate IT. With the advent of the iPhone, iPad, Android it is clear that Microsoft will have no place in most regular peoples lives in the decades to come. Most people now jump ship and go straight for the Mac for a hassle free day-to-day computing experience. But in corporate IT the Mac isn’t really the tool for the job. Even though I love the Macs at home – it’s clear to me – given my job in corporate IT that the person-centric Mac-culture is far from ideal in the fascistic corporate environment. This is where Linux comes in. Far from being the easiest platform for the end user – Linux is still the most customizable platform on the planet. It has all of the features that modern Microsoft-products are missing at the moment. It’s easy to use, fast, stable and is the most advanced kernel on the planet. The OSS culture is also the most resilient and shows that it is ahead of it’s time in ingenuity, security and usability given the recent advent of the Mac-AppStore on the Mac-platform. It’s time for Microsoft to die and the market to split into two segments: Private – using Apple-products and slowly shifting to Android. Corporate – using Linux/OSS right from the get-go: Harvesting productivity gains, security increases and stability benefits that will take us right back to the time of the UNIX.
