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17. It largely is; Canonical, Red Hat, and Mac are moving in that direction

Reply to GreatGazoo (Reply #12)

Thu Jan 22, 2015, 01:45 PM

Jan 2015

I say this as a dyed-in-the-wool UNIX user, but Windows 8 has (for once) led the way towards the "computers everywhere" model.

That said, as much as I hate Microsoft software, Gates has for the past 2 decades been very clear that the kids in Lagos and Kolkata don't need laptops, they need clean water, and he's done an amazing amount of work to make that happen.

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