Microsoft’s Windows Operating system is the king of operating system market. Windows nearly captured 90% Market of desktop operating system. Windows Vista gives a chance to other operating system also to complete with windows operating. Now people thinking about vista replacements. Let’s have a look to other operating system that may replace windows operating system.

Apple’s Mac OS x is one of the biggest threat to Windows operating system. Apple’s Mac OS x offers a great degree of support for application support, functionality, packaging and overall a good operating system that can compete with Windows operating system. Biggest problem with Mac OS x is Apple it self, Apple restricts its Operating system from running to other hardware platform. If Apple makes its Operating system to other hardware platforms then it will be a big threat to Windows operating system

As compare to Apple’s and Microsoft’s operating system Linux is free and open source desktop operating system. Linux runs on vast verity of hardware and processor architecture. An active and growing developer community is backed up with Linux Operating System that makes Linux available on number of Hardware platforms as well as a number of desktop option in Linux it self. The wide variety of desktop Linux incarnations makes it difficult for ISVs and IHVs (independent hardware vendors) to close these application support gaps.

Solaris is one of the elder friends of Linux Operating system. Solaris has some unique features as compare to other operating systems like ZFS and containers. Solaris currently not support vats verity of hardware and processor architecture platforms. Solaris also face issue with software vendors. Currently not many developers develop applications for Solaris as compare to develop for Linux or Windows. The only way we’re likely to see an uptick in Solaris-based clients is if Sun’s thin-client Sun Ray product line starts winning some major converts.

Free BSD is also take benefit form open source Linux platform. BSD’s licensing is far more easy as compare to Linux for proprietary makers. FreeBSD makes up part of Apple’s OS X core, and this behind-the-scenes OS X inclusion is probably the most prominence that FreeBSD will end up enjoying.

Mobile Devices: Today’s hottest topic of discussion in operating system arena is Mobile desktop operating system and mobile devices. More and more mobile devices are coming into the market to replace desktop clients. Google is cooking its Linux and Java based operating system called as Android. Nokia has also recently acquired Symbian mobile OS and turns it into an open source project. Apple’s iPhone and iPod devices are also open for developers. The key success factor with these devices will be how they handle user input and display information on to the screen.

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