Comment by Calavar
2 years ago
Yep. Microsoft has forgotten what their value proposition for Windows is. Once they started to see it as a tool that extracts value and not a product that provides value, everything started to go downhill. I think there is a real opening for a startup company that can create a Linux Distro that is Wine centric, letting users migrate over and still use all their current Windows software.
There's no way for a startup to actually compete vs Windows. The valuable market for that are corporations running Windows, those are extremely risk-averse, and even if the OS was almost a drop-in replacement to their Windows machines these corporations would expect a level of customer service that no startup could provide.
Microsoft has this huge moat with PC gaming + corporations which are really hard markets to crack into as a startup.