Comment by skeeter2020
14 hours ago
Do they really "teach Windows" in schools? I see way more people treat the browser as the OS, if they even use a non-mobile device.
Your comment is full of phrases that answer why consumers and enterprise won't switch: "pretty stable", "good enough", "a pretty good option". This are true for the Windows default; why switch?
Sadly, schools don't have real computers any more, it's all chromebooks. Gen Alpha is going to be completely computer illiterate.
My kid has had a public-school-provided Windows laptop since 3rd grade. I don't doubt chromebooks are the majority but I can't find any consistent stats on how wide the margin is.
Even if it had been a chromebook, it's still massively more computer exposure than my generation got. We got to play Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe once a month or whatever until high school, when we might use Wordperfect on occasion.
I would expect that whether a generation becomes computer literate will depend on whether they use computers in work or daily life.
I don't understand, we didn't have computers at all and didn't end up illiterate. Why are you underestimating kids so much?
Windows would be 'taught' as a byproduct of another activity involving Windows software, usually starting with Office/365.