Suddenly, Microsoft says you can't use Windows 7 and 8.1 on your new PC Idiots

Not everyone, not even most, but a lot of people and companies will be capable of running linux and be done with it. The big deals will be Word, Excel and other enterprisy tools. But just because a few people in a company us those three doesn't mean that everyone has to run the OS that runs those.

This would be helped if people would realize that we don't need "professional" level word processors for everyone. Plain text or .rtf would really suit most needs. I'm leaving off Libre Office, because that's huge and the features would slow adoption.

Plain text, rtf + export to PDF when you need a bit of formatting, and that should do it for most people, they just don't realize it.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10917473