M-$oft regards Linux like Ron Paul regards Iran. Hmmmm....
for linux to be competitive it would need an a display as attractive and convenient as ms.
I’m running Ubuntu Linux. It looks fine and works fine but what it needs is a few more apps like TurboTax (imo).
Linux livecds make great rescue disks. Other than that it is nothing but beta software that will take many hours of frustration to tweak just right. Even then there’s still going to be numerous bugs.
1999 will be the year of Linux on the desktop! No, 2000! No, I really mean 2001! No, make that 2002! I really mean it in 2003... LOL
Linux is a hobbyist platform for script kiddies and wannabees. It is not a serious operating system.
It sounds like this article agrees with Microsoft. The threat to the desktop isn’t another competitor on the desktop it’s that the desktop market is going away.
With devics and cloud taking precedence...who has the desktop doesnt’ really matter any longer. For linux crowd to get all up in arms about this is silly and they too have the wrong target in their sites. For so many years they’ve been trying to take on windows they have lost their compass.
Kind of like a horseshoe company trying to take on Ford Motor.
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I have to agree with Microsoft here. Linux isn’t a threat to its DESKTOP business.
Linux is a threat to Microsoft’s business everyplace else though.
Phone OS
Embedded OS
Pad OS
Server OS
As I’ve pointed out here before, my TV actually runs Linux. My GPS also runs Linux. This is the expanding market for operating systems, not desktop computers.
linux has a serious problem penetrating the mass market. It is still pretty much a technobabble device for endusers.
I am will to bet if the article was “apple disregards linux” the mac snobs will be circling the waggons in support.
The question is, what will the desktop be in a couple of years.
I suggest that eventually the handheld device will be the desktop, and will simply be wirelessly attached to the monitor and keyboard, or a docking station, when you want to use it as in a similar manner to a desktop.
My take?
Linux’s trajectory is up.
MS’s trajectory is down.
Where and when the lines cross and in response to what events is anyone’s guess. But in my opinion the eventual outcome is virtually certain.
They’re right. Without the primary driving company there’s nothing to push users to Linux, people who go to Linux have to find it for themselves, which just never drives a big market. While dribs and drabs of people decide to experiment with Linux Windows is appearing on the vast majority of new computers sold, even if the user then turns around and overwrites it with Linux MS already got their money. MS has been ignoring Linux for 15 years and Linux still only has 2% of the market:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
I mean really, Vista has 7 times the usage and everybody hates Vista.