The future of desktop Linux
The current dogma is that Linux can’t become a popular desktop operating system while the worlds most popular applications are written for Windows. But that’s just not true anymore. My grandfather who’s in his 90’s recently got his first computer. The only two applications that matter are web and email. The fact is that the OS matters much less now then it did in 2001 and it’ll matter even less in 2010.
Applications are moving to the web and application platforms are moving online as well. Flex from Adobe is moving things into the Air platform. Silverlight from Microsoft is bringing .Net onto the web. Prism from Mozilla is also bridging the gap by bringing web applications to the desktop…. And Java, ahh Java, but that’s another story.
There’s no reason the next OS platform can’t be Linux.
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