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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1371733" data-attributes="member: 71075">Linux. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />It's quite obvious that both MS and Apple are moving towards pared down operating systems that cater to the majority of users who have rather simplistic needs. I give you my parents as an example: if they can read email and type a document, they're happy. Or, I submit my friends as another: if they can check Facebook (and bother me on it), type up their assignments and watch the odd video, they're happy. Thus, abstracting individuals from the minutiae of operating systems is the end goal here because it caters to 90% of the end users that serve as clientele. That said, neither operating system is going to be locked down like iOS for one very simple reason: you can't run all computers with such restrictions. Computers are used in a myriad of ways which limits the types of restrictions you can develop.I do find it somewhat ironic however that MS, long presented as the antithesis of Apple's walled garden, is &quot;growing its own garden&quot; with Metro applications. But, I digress.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1371733, member: 71075"] Linux. :P It's quite obvious that both MS and Apple are moving towards pared down operating systems that cater to the majority of users who have rather simplistic needs. I give you my parents as an example: if they can read email and type a document, they're happy. Or, I submit my friends as another: if they can check Facebook (and bother me on it), type up their assignments and watch the odd video, they're happy. Thus, abstracting individuals from the minutiae of operating systems is the end goal here because it caters to 90% of the end users that serve as clientele. That said, neither operating system is going to be locked down like iOS for one very simple reason: you can't run all computers with such restrictions. Computers are used in a myriad of ways which limits the types of restrictions you can develop. I do find it somewhat ironic however that MS, long presented as the antithesis of Apple's walled garden, is "growing its own garden" with Metro applications. But, I digress. [/QUOTE]

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