[backhoe]

Linux has its own problems. Staying with XP is best, but we need somebody like Google to get into the OS market.

What really put me off a few years ago, on Linux, was the Uber-Geeky depths I had to plumb to get answers, drivers, and other stuff to work properly.

When it reaches a stage where you can just install it, and it works with your hardware without much tweaking, it will give MS a run for its money.

Now the idea of another large company. like Google, developing another OS is interesting- there's got to be a market for it.

[Moonman62]

There's a huge market for it, because MS has always put out poor quality products. But it's a tough nut to crack. MS OS's come preloaded on new hardware. Hardware vendors write drivers for MS first or exclusively. The other problem is compatibility with documents created with MS applications.

Back in Windows 3.1 days, IBM came up with a brilliant idea called OS/2 for Windows. Within a few weeks MS came up with a patch to fix some esoteric problem with Windows 3.1, that by some cosmic coincidence broke OS/2 for Windows.

The lesson is it will take a miracle to unseat MS. They are positively evil and make shoddy products that make GM cars look like high quality.