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 Originally by: Ealiom
Go download a driver and you have to specify which OS you are using. Thats fine at present because there are a limited amount as Windows dominates the market, but in a world were umpteen OS's all fight for market dominance and no one OS has a monopoly. You would find Hardware provider hard pressed to support them all.
It's up to the OS developers to support hardware. Works great as long as the hardware companies provides the developers with the information they need.
Originally by: Ealiom
In a market like that OS's would appear and disappear very quickly.
Can you imagine a new OS's supplier approachin Nvidia about driver support for there new OS's
'Who are you guys'
'Were looking for driver compatibility for our new OS Doors PX'
'Never heard of you [slam]'
You are assuming that the relationship MS has with hardware vendors is some kind of normal standard. It's not. Nobody demands NVidia to write drivers for their OS. It's usually developers begging hardware vendors to release specs (under NDA if needed) so they can write the drivers.
Originally by: Ealiom
The main point im trying to get across is that at present we all use windows, everyone how uses a PC knows how to use it. It is readily supported and its interface is well known.
You fire in a ton of different OS's to fill the vaccuum left by MS and it would horrible.
"We" don't all use windows, not everyone with a PC knows how to use windows, it is only supported at the rate of 99,- euros for an e-mail question and 250,- euros for a phonecall and that support is only available at one place: MS.
Originally by: Ealiom
I dont actually believe that would happen, i believe there would always be an OS with a massive share of the market. I also dont believe they would be any better than MS.
I don't think that will happen either. Windows marketshare won't drop substantially until MS stops allowing people to pirate their software through simple loopholes that are ment to at least keep the installed base at a maximum even if they don't get every sale.
Of course, there is quite a bit of competition coming from various linux distros that are trying to get through MS vendor lock-in strategies. Ubuntu is excellent to replace windows with on the avarage desktop and on the serverside the match was over before it even really began (talking about ISP's here mostly). MS might try for a comeback but for now it doesn't seem like anyone is buying into their ridicoulus TCO estimates for rival systems.
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