In 2014 Steve Ballmer announced he was stepping down as the Microsoft CEO, and Satya Nadella would be taking his place. There were a few demo videos released, but I don’t think anybody used the convergence technology on a daily basis. It was something Canonical spent a lot of time and effort on, but the technology never made it to the public. One of the most hyped features about Ubuntu Touch was the ability to convert your mobile phone into a full-blown desktop. Ubuntu Touch was a fiasco, Canonical was never able to find a reliable phone vendor to partner up and release their mobile phone OS, so there they were, without a clear strategy for their Desktop and Mobile OS. Then the mobile mania came along and canonical jumped on the bandwagon and sort of left Ubuntu Desktop on the side, and focus on their Ubuntu Touch ( the mobile version of Ubuntu ) project instead. I manage a Windows-based network at work, but besides Outlook ( which I use for e-mail ) I was able to work comfortably in Ubuntu. I started using Ubuntu 12.04 as my main operating system on my work and home computers. Even Dell and other hardware vendors started selling computers with Ubuntu preinstalled. With the release of Windows 8 being an epic failure, Ubuntu 12.04 had the right elements to become a more mainstream operating system. In my opinion, Ubuntu 12.04 was the first Linux Desktop OS that could compete with Windows or Mac in terms of aesthetics and usability. It was polished and made Ubuntu very easy to use. In my opinion, it was this new GUI that set Ubuntu apart from gazillion other Linux distributions out of there. Around 2010, Canonical ( The parent company of Ubuntu ) announced a new Graphic User Interface ( GUI ) for Ubuntu called Unity.

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