This does backfire for them in certain cases though, especially in terms of networking.
All of their games are still on a built-out peer2peer implementation they acquired in 2008 and it shows how much it holds them back - anyone that played a Nintendo online game on switch knows what I mean (no, 30 NES games I played on my Wii aren't a consolation).
But how will Martha in Accounting (or whatever the Korean equivalent of Martha in Accounting is) learn how to deal with the UX terribleness that is most of Linux? Windows she's been using all of her life, it might not be much better but she's used to it.
> They learnt to deal with the terrible UX in Windows, no reason they can’t on Linux. :-)
Linux's terrible UIs change pretty much every month as Linux GUI devs get bored and decide to reinvent everything for no reason. Microsoft has only recently started doing that and it's still at a much slower pace.
If you pick some random community version, then yes.
But you know, there are versions with commercial support out there. And governments could have the budget to actually maintain their own version. (they do btw.)
I’ve mentioned that we don’t use Word, (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?) and the dominant word processor used in South Korea had a port to Linux that is fully featured and has a very high compatibility since 2008.
> (BTW, seriously, is there anyone who uses Outlook anymore?)
Outlook is still huge amongst professions that have to deal with people a lot. The calendaring is better than online solutions (by a lot) and the plugins, I am told, for stuff like Salesforce are awesome.
At this point most people should have realized that Apple's privacy stance is first and foremost a marketing thing.