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For example, one of the productivity software that is most popular is "MS-Windows Office", but the competition is provided by Google, online, and does not have to be installed on your computer, I admit Google's software lacks a few features office has, but one can easily use it for their business and learn to live with those non-existing features.

Linux has also other benefits, it is less hackable and, as Linux becomes even more widely used, a lot of applications will migrate to that platform.

9 months ago:
Linux breaks through 5% share in USA desktop OS market (Statcounter)

Yes, Windows has the upper hand in many categories, one being the availability of productivity software, which raises the question on why Linux has not taken a better approach to providing software to make it more competitive and gain more market. But, Linux does offer other benefits, one of them being security. If more countries decide to take the route France is taking, that should help the software industry start porting their productivity software to Linux.

My company developed a custom productivity software for one of our clients on the Linux system, we developed it in java, running of a web server at the client's shop and allowing other of his shops to connect and use it remotely. If you are on one of the computers running our software, you would never know its Linux, so it is possible.

Lets see what happens.