I'm not saying the article is wrong, but here's why I think we've struggled to have the year of the Linux Desktop: the corporations want control over users and computers that are on the network. They like their Windows domain user and computer GUI controls, that let them add/remove users and computers at will. They like the control of that centralized management. Centralized user management is more work on Linux, and tools for it aren't as pretty. The Hypervisor GUI is another tool that executives like to see.
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I'm not saying the article is wrong, but here's why I think we've struggled to have the year of the Linux Desktop: the corporations want control over users and computers that are on the network. They like their Windows domain user and computer GUI controls, that let them add/remove users and computers at will. They like the control of that centralized management. Centralized user management is more work on Linux, and tools for it aren't as pretty. The Hypervisor GUI is another tool that executives like to see.