Desktop Relevance

[jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org (Jack Coats)]

I was trying to remember GEM and DesqView when I mentioned TopView.  I just
can't get my memory to
work like I want it to some days.

Yes., I agree with your assessment.  Also M$ charges a very low fee to
mfgr's to allow them to install
desktop OS, and in the commodity market for many desktops, this is a benefit
to the manufacturers.

The servers are an entirely different market.  I worked for a regional bank
that hated
anything not M$ but hired me because I could spell it.  IT Management was
effectively
'scared', because of their reading in the local business press.  Since they
paid me,
I tolerated it, took their money, and life goes on.

IHS ... Jack


2009/3/30 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>

> On 03/29/2009 07:46 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
>
>> Actually, with windows, there was IBM's TopView for a while.  Both had
>> issues,
>> M$ won.  M$ has taken most other 'desktops' out of the market by
>> 'internalizing'
>> their desktop with an 'integrated system' (merging os and desktop
>> functions
>> into one).
>>
>>
>>
> Actually there were a number of early competitors to Windows, such a DRI's
> GEM and DesqView. Norton also had a multiple desktop feature similar to what
> GNOME, KDE, and other Linux windowing systems have.  Windows won, mainly
> because their system was pre-installed on most PCs.  When the average person
> buys a computer, they stick with what is installed. This is one reason why
> IBM's OS/2 failed, and it is another reason why Linux won't get a major
> slice of the market.  Microsoft works closely with the major PC vendors
> (Dell, HP, and others) to insure that Windows is installed on virtually all
> of their consumer PCs and most of their business desktop PCs. The server
> market is a bit different because the major vendors, such as HP and IBM
> provide both Unix, Linux, and Windows pre-installed and supported by them.
>
>
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