[dba-Tech] XP replacement?

On 2014-02-05 10:54 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> ASUS is selling, what it calls the XP replacement. Is the world ready for Android (Linux) to replace Window?
>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/xp-replacement-179-asus-chromebox-is-most-powerful-chrome-device-to-date/#ftag=RSS56d97e7

If you're willing to pay usage fees for the rest of your life to the 
server farm that implements your "cloud", sure, but most XP users, I 
think, have a different set of requirements---fast networking browsing & 
email and a decent Windows-like GUI with Excel2000-fully-compatible 
spreadsheet, PowerPoint2000-fully-compatible presentation software, and 
Word2000-fully-compatible word processing. Thats the 31% or so of 
current Windows users who still run XP, ie many millions who feel no 
compulsion to be near the bleeding edge but are just trying to get their 
'puter work done with minimum fuss----a huge market for an open source 
implementation of "Windows". What seems 'rilly odd to me is that no *Nix 
OS vendor has yet produced what these people need.

PB

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