Linux Netbooks: Hit Microsoft where it ain't
In open source or in product development generally, one of the biggest mistakes is to take on a deeply entrenched incumbent on its own turf. Almost inevitably, if you play someone else's game, even if you're a little cheaper/faster/better, you're going to lose. Inertia favors the incumbent, and there's a whole lot of inertia involved in switching vendors.
For this reason, I agree wholeheartedly with Bill Weinberg's suggestion that Linux's opportunity in Netbooks is to focus on the mobile side of the market, rather than bringing a traditional, personal computer bent to the market.
Weinberg writes:
...(O)ne strategic error made by purveyors of Linux Netbooks was to covet the volumes of the global mobile telephony market while following the business models and channels of the legacy notebook marketplace. Linux fans--.orgs, Linux ISVs, and device OEMS--unfortunately approached the Netbook opportunity as a downward extension of the desktop and portable PC business, with volumes of 297M units in 2008 (IDC).
Instead, the Linux ecosystem needs to envision Netbooks (and MIDs and tablets) as building on the worldwide mobile handset business, with its 1.28B annual unit shipments (Gartner) the most lucrative slice of which, smartphones, constitutes 14 percent (ABI) with 20 percent annual growth rates.
Microsoft owns the traditional personal computer market, and probably will forever. But don't lose hope: the best strategies going forward are disruptive, in the Clayton Christensen sense. Microsoft is weak in mobile. This is where Linux proponents should focus their "desktop" strategies.
Apple is gaining on Microsoft in personal computers as much because of its iPhone revolution as its beautiful laptops. If Linux wants to win in Netbooks, and it can, it must do so by undermining Microsoft, not by confronting its desktop dominance directly. Netbooks must be more "Net" than "book," just as mobile phones are more about "mobile" than "phone."
If this is true, Google's Android, which is targeting smartphones first and Netbooks second, may have the upper hand on Intel's Moblin, which aims at Netbooks first, and is largely designed as a Windows replacement.
Malcolm Gladwell recently reminded the world that David beats Goliath with a sling, not a sword. Linux-based Netbooks, playing David to Microsoft's Goliath, should approach the market with a mobile bias, rather than with a personal computer bias.
"Hit 'em where they ain't," said Willie Keeler, which is as true in hitting baseballs as it is in competing with Microsoft.
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Furthermore, Windows runs a heck of lot more of the vital apps that businesses and consumers need than Linux has ever run. To most computer buyers, that's all that counts. People don't buy a comouter just to look at some funny panguin on it. They buy a computer to run the apps that they need.
ubuntu certainly has the potential to become a player if they find a way to monitize and use any pull they may have to get REAL apps on ubuntu. we need adobe products, GAMES and other popular programs. its simply not enough to have 'similar apps that are almost as good'.
Linux is as easy or easier to use as Windows, at least on Netbooks.
The Windows you get on Netbooks is XP Home, which has very limited connectivity. My Netbook, which came with XP Home which I immediately tossed, now runs Linux and can connect to the network in my office just fine.
:"Linux is as easy or easier to use as Windows"
On what planet is that?
Dreamland?
This happens to be real life.
The open source crazies continue to live in cloud cuckoo land!
JoeF2 :
"The Windows you get on Netbooks is XP Home, which has very limited connectivity"
Every XP netbook that is selling today, comes with wifi, and is easily connected to the internet with no problems whatsoever.
Furthermore, a pretty high percentage of consumers who made the mistake of buying Linux netbooks, swiftly returned them, because they were expecting the Windows experience, and were expecting it to run all their normal Windows apps, which Linux netbooks just can't run.
There is a reason, Linux netbooks market share fell sharply from over 90% share, to less than 10% share in just one year, even as Windows netbooks market share rose sharply from under 10% share to over 90% share in just a year
Funny they never add the cost of the Anti Virus app that you Absolutely MUST run on the Windows version or else.
That $20 difference can quickly become a $60 + difference not to mention all the system resources your virus app is using up and slowing you shiny little lightweight netbook down to a crawl.
Anyone using the "lack of Games" argument on a Netbook should have their posting privileges removed. They obviously have no idea what a Netbook was designed for.
http://search.live.com/products/Acer-Aspire-ONE-A150-1570-Atom-N270-1-6-GHz-8-9-TFT/?q=cheap%20netbooks&p1=%5bCommerceService+scenario%3d%22s%22+docid%3d%224A6AFAFE58A5B2A66DB3%22+do%3d%221%22+p%3d%22df5c7f1ba4404c05b3f423c4e307eee6%22%5d&wf=Commerce&FORM=EECL
And it comes with 120 GB hard drive, 1 GB RAM and Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g, plus Windoows XP of course.
Why, it even comes with a Microsoft Office Professional 2007 (60 days trial).
You don't have to pay for A/V
The Web is the best platform out there. So create a device that is the best Web device and you have a winner.
Nothing lasts forever...
When the paradigm changes to Web based apps and services, then they will not own the market anymore. It will be Google's.
Eventually all that will matter on the software side is the browser and any OS will do as long as it loads a great browser. At this point, Microsoft will lose it's grip.
The open source fanatics have been talking about "changed paradigms" for ten years, and have gotten exactly NOWHERE, even as Windows continues to dominate the workld;s desktops.
But hey, keep on kidding yourself.
t8 " It will be Google's"
Google's Android is getting clobbered but good in the smartphone market right now, by Blkackberry. If they can't even win market share in smart phones, how do they propose to capture the netbook market share with the same linux based andriod, where linux has been a masive failure on netbooks?
Don't mistake what you read as reality. If all you would watch was local TV news, would you think that all cities are overrun by criminals?
Fact is, there has been only _one_ case of "high returns" for Linux-based netbooks -- MSI -- who admit to having internal QA problems with SUSE. Yet, this _lone_ case has been embellished (by incompetent journalists) and projected onto the netbook category as a whole -- despite contradictory reports from bigger players such as ASUS and Dell, who report that the return rate for Linux is as low as that of Windows XP.
Yoiu are smoking the same thing the Iraqi Information Minister Mohamed Al Sahef was smoking when he said:" There are no American troops in Baghdad at all. We slaughtered all the Americans long ago".
And I am Mother Thesresa too.
Denial is the first name of Linix fanatics.
I guess people just like clunky OSes?
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-SP2-and-Windows-7-More-Secure-than-Linux-and-Mac-OS-X-Leopard-109192.shtml
And oh, did I mention Windows actually runs all your vital , needed applications, while Linux and Mc OS X don't?
Security? In the Pwn2Own Hacker cash-prize competition, Vista and MacOSX were breached, while Linux (Ubuntu) stood secure...
http://tinyurl.com/2rz7er
"So at the end of the last day of the contest, only the Sony VAIO laptop running Ubuntu was left standing."
The West Point military academy chose free Linux (Fedora) to fend off a cyberspace war from the NSA super-spy organization...
http://tinyurl.com/4k3tb5
Did cadets with Linux beat the NSA's sophisticated assault? "They terminated it. With extreme prejudice."
HP and Dell netbook partner Canonical debunks the "high returns" nonsense...
http://blog.canonical.com/?p=151
:)
When Windows 7 releases, all these Linux boxes will disappear, even Mac OSX market share will freeze.
http://www.infopackets.com/news/business/microsoft/2009/20090518_win7_rc1_market_shares_slide_microsoft_optimistic.htm
By the way, Linux is not gonna go away, Microsoft used his power to shut it down for years and Linux is still growing. You cant win against a vendor but you cant win against communities and you cant win against free.
Now why don't you read this, and weep?
"Windows clobbers Linux on netbooks with over 90% share"
http://blogs.computerworld.com/study_windows_clobbers_linux_on_netbooks_with_over_90_share
@ zelrik :
" You cant win against a vendor but you cant win against communities and you cant win against free."
Now that's funny, Windows has been winning against Linux on the world's desktops/laptops for years, and in just the last year, Windows has proceeded to totally annihilate Linux in netbooks too, proving that you can win against the combined open source community, and win against so-called 'free" anytime.
Meanwhile, like Scott McNealy said" Linux is free like a puppy is free". You could get it "free", but its gonna end up costing ya.
Guess I better enjoy my Linux while I'm still able to, sorry those last three or four versions of Windows that was gonna be the end didn't work out, surely this next one will do it though. /Thumbs up
Naaaah.
It's the ol, "the old 7 year version of Windows(XP), has just destroyed Linux market share in netbooks in the last 12 months."
Microsoft doesn't even need a new version of Windows to clobber Linux. Any old version will do.
Windows winning? Why it's market share is eroding years after years? Why I upgraded from XP to Ubuntu Linux 2 years ago ? Am I a nerd or an early adopter?
I'll tell you something, 10 years ago I was laughing at Linux. Today I am not.
:?ahahah, that article you showed me was written by hmm Preston ?
Umm..it?s a fact that XP has supplanted Linux in the netbooks market. It?s been reported by NPD and by practically every tech publication out there including here:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/26/linux-keeps-dying/
:?Windows winning? ?
Sadly for you, Windows is not only winning, it?s been winning for decades.
:?Why it's market share is eroding years after years??
Windows has 90% share of the worlds desktops/laptops.
What is the Linux market share again?
?I'll tell you something, 10 years ago I was laughing at Linux?
10 years ago, Linux had less than 2% of the world?s desktops/laptops. Ten year later(today), Linux STILL has less than 2% of the world?s desktpops/laptops. Linux has gone exactly NOWHERE. How about that eh?
And I am still laughing at linux
NPD talking about Linux is like my mother (she doesnt know what Google is) talking about Linux
NPD is wrong, so you are. A lie coming from a dictactor, a 10 years old kid or a company... is still a lie.
PS : The earth being flat was a fact too back in the day.
LMAO!
Denial is the first name of the Linux fanatics.
Sorry, but every single highly reputable market share measuring establishment has Windows clobbering linux in the netbooks market. Dataquest, IDC, everyone.
You can run but you can't hide. Linux is getting clobbered but good in the netbooks market, by a 7 year old operating system called Windows XP.
Microsoft doesn't even need a new operating system to beat Linux. That's pretty pathetic for Linux
So sorry.
I am well aware of what the data is like and I am also well aware of what methods Microsoft is using. I am also very well aware of what that number from NPD means. I read a lot you know I think about what I read means (understand : not like you).
Throwing numbers from your hat is one thing, understanding them is another.
I am not a Linux fanatic dont get me wrong. I know where Linux is sitting at right now and I know where it's going to be in the coming years. But what makes me mad is liars, I hate them.
I am done with you.
If the developers can accomplish this, then Linux will be able to compete with Window quite favorably
You do realize that there are as many cases in Windows where the command line is required don't you.
Besides, the command line will always be more powerful and flexible than any GUI.
I have not once been required to use the command line,
A Linux-preloaded PC doesn't demand use of the command-line interface (CLI).
In fact, HP has "disabled" CLI on the Ubuntu-based Mini 1000-Mi netbook.
Funny, how Microsoft prioritized PowerShell CLI for Windows 7...
http://lifehacker.com/5082266/powershell-comes-with-windows-7
:)
You can read my short post on the matter at
http://adamfitton.blogspot.com/2009/02/linux-via-vectors.html
Also, using Wine (a collection of Windows APIs for linux) almost any application that runs in any pre-vista release of windows can be installed in linux.
The fact that Linux supports multiple platforms and thus considerably more hardware is a huge advantage that is going to pay off.
Just keep kidding yourself will ya?
If Windows has already clobbered Linux on netbooks running on Intel atoms, why the heck would the same linux tunning on ARM, win any market share for the same linux?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/study_windows_clobbers_linux_on_netbooks_with_over_90_share
It's the operating system and the familliar Windows experience. Most normal consumeras don't give 2 hoots about ARM chips in their netbooks/laptops if that laptop is not gonna run Windows. That's all they care about, Windoiws.
Naaaah.
It's more like you don't care about facing reality, but you sure as heck care about putting your head in the sand, blocking out reality, and living in dreamland.
So you claim. Anyone can say anything on the internet.
Meanwhile, there can't be that many of you ubuntu users out there, when linux desptop market share is still hovering at under 2% worldwide can there?
After over 15 years of trying, all linux has manged to get a great big whopping..wait for it..less than 2% ,market share worldwide. That's not exactly what you'd call progress is it?
You do claim a lot of things too. Yes I used XP before, as well as windows 98, what do you think.
"Meanwhile, there can't be that many of you ubuntu users out there, when linux desptop market share is still hovering at under 2% worldwide can there?"
Here : total PC market size worldwide : 1 500 000 000 , 1% of that is 15 000 000 isnt it? How credible is someone that cannot do the math.
Note there are 100 000 000 Linux users worldwide, which is far more than the claimed 1%
"After over 15 years of trying, all linux has manged to get a great big whopping..wait for it..less than 2% ,market share worldwide. That's not exactly what you'd call progress is it?"
You dont understand that the Linux community used to not care about its market share. That trend is very recent with the push made by Canonical.
# 1. The fact that Linux has 1% of the PC mrket today, doesn't mean Linux has 1% of the totalo installed base pof all personal comouters on the planet does it?
Linux market share used to be mucxh lower before.
Enough with the vooddo math friom you already.
@ zelrik :"You dont understand that the Linux community used to not care about its market share"
Linux people "don't care" about market share?
LMAO!
Now that is really really funny.
Where were you when Linux Torvalds promised to "put Microsoft out of business using Linux"?..and that was over 10 years ago.
10 years later, not only is Windows as dominant as ever, Linux is stuck in as tiny a niche as ever.
Some progress.
Some "putting out of business"
Linux fanatics have been promisong to destsoy Windows market share for as long as I can remember. They just keep shifting the time line every year they fail to do it, that's all.
Will you excuse me while I luagh at you clowns?
MS will have to spend millions and divert a lot of resources just to get its crappy OS to run on ARM's. Linux is already there. Linux has more hardware support and software than Windows. That is a fact, just because it makes you cry doesn't change it.
With one distro and a few tweak you can run the same OS on a very small embedded device or a supercomputer cluster with thousands of processors without additional programming. All that support is built right into the kernel. For MS to do that with Windows, lots of programmer time and effort has to be wasted for each additional device.
So stop f'in bashing that Linux and Mac are POS because they can't gain market share. It is because Microsoft doesn't let it.
Accept it, if there was competition but no monopoly we would have seen something like Windows 7 at least 5 years ago.
It makes it ths best for MOST computer uers on the planet, who have made informed decisions to walk past the Apple/Linux isles in the computer shops and go buy Windows PC's with their hard eraned money.
Just keep putting your head in the sand and kidding yourself will ya?
Nobody is forced to buy a Windows computer when they walk into Best Buy. The isles are full of Apple macs, which consumers CHOSE to walk past, and go buy Windows PC's.
You seee, consuners have plenty of sense, and are not as stupid as the Apple poseurs, who are idiotic enpough to spend THREE times as much on averahe\ge on an Apple laptop, with a lower spec than a a lower priced Windows pc.
Now why don't you tell us the last time you walked into Best Buy and anyone forced you at gun point to buy a Windows PC instead of a Mac or Linux PC?
Just tell us all about it will ya?
Are you retarded or are you just pretending to be one?
You didn't even understand what I said.
I wasn't talking about distributors that sell Windows boxes. I'm talking about Microsoft that forced them selling only Windows boxed from the very beginning, that's why everyone is choosing Windows, because they have used it forever. And last time I was at BestBuy I didn't see ANY Apple computer, but i don't really care about them either.
If you haven't read this, then do it, it's only about 30 pages.
History of Microsoft's AntiCompetitive Behavior
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090421111327711
Most Windows zealots are oblivious to PC history, so they truly don't understand how Microsoft's OS monopoly was built by locking manufacturers into restrictive (and NDA) contracts, at a time when there was no other consumer OS for IBM's new PC. Under contract, OEMs were required to pay Microsoft a royalty for every PC they sold, whether or not an MS operating system was ever actually installed on those PCs. This effectively stifled OS competitors, as the PC makers would still have to pay MS, even if they were also to pay for a non-MS operating system. Only much later, in the 1990's, were Microsoft's anti-competition tactics judged to be illegal by US and EU governments. Billions of dollars of antitrust fines have been levied against Microsoft because of their systematic corruption of the PC market. These court cases are ongoing in the US and Europe, even today.
It's asking too much to expect the average PC user to understand the inertial effects of Microsoft's longtime vendor lock-in, because end-users really haven't known anything else in their lifetime -- and most people are afraid of the unfamiliar, and they're reluctant to learn new things, even when it's for their own good. Many moons ago, such people were hostile toward the suggestion that Earth isn't flat.
Compared to Microsoft's decades-old monopoly, consumer Linux has been in the mainstream market for only about 18 months -- yet the Redmond behemoth is already bleeding buckets of revenue by having to sell WinXP for a song, in order to subsidize Windows in the cheap netbook market. Thanks to Linux as a market force, Microsoft must promise a leaner new Windows 7.
Consumers are the real winners, on price and selection, yet Windows zealots regard Linux as an unwelcome insurgent.
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That's what I'm talking about. If Microsoft wasn't anti-competitive, we would have seen Windows7 several years ago. But not only that, we would also have more choice between OS'es. And those thousands of applications that Windows zealots claim they need would be not only for Windows, they would be cross-platform.
Right now I got an iMac that is running winXP in a window and I've just loaded the new Ubuntu in another virtual machine window (just to play & see for myself). So with Mac I have all three. Can Win7 run MacOSX in a window? How can so many people hate bananas if they have never seriously tasted one? I loaded up a linux virtual window so that I can make an informed opinion of it myself, I've heard it sucks, it is great, it is hard, it is easy... Only way for me to really judge is to seriously try it myself. And not just for one task or one day, but play with it now and then for months.
People need to use whatever OS they need. I don't need Windows, but many people still use Windows. I don't care. I don't want to call them names or laugh at their choice. Please let me have my Mac and I'll let you have your Windows and we can both be happy. I really don't see why so many people from either side need to degrade to 3rd grade name-calling and faulty logic attacks. Calling me an idiot for hating Windows is not going to get me to dump my Mac and switch back.
I personally didn't see the use for Mac - but rather than believe what others claimed, I went out and tried it. I love it. Works for me but I can see how Mac won't work for everyone and I'm happy that my OS isn't the most popular, helps keep me and the Mac out of trouble.
What tires me though are the number of ignorant Windows users posting comments who clearly have no idea what it is like to use a current Linux distribution today. I don't need the "thousands" of supposedly "essential" applications that some here boast Windows has. I don't know anyone with Windows-specific needs that go beyond a single application. The majority of users are not so encumbered by such a dependency. And its NOT harder than Windows either, that is a myth that has been perpetuated for far too long. A Linux system, aside from updates is virtually maintenance free, while the average Windows system requires ongoing maintenance.
I have great applications on my Linux system and have no need for any Windows applications. I have an intelligent Package Management system that wont break my PC by installing updates that it shouldn't. I have stability, reliability and security the likes of which Windows users can only dream of, and I don't need third party antivirus and anti-spyware apps. All my favorite apps these days, like DigiKam, KTorrent, Kopete, Quassel, Amarok, Kontact, Kdenlive, K3B, Eric Python IDE, K9Copy, (yes I'm a KDE user) and more, either don't run on Windows or their Windows counterparts are poor by comparison. I'm only a casual gamer so the free games like Nexuiz, Glest and a few others are fine for me. I have a wonderful free operating system that will never lock me out of my own computer or treat me like a criminal. And there's so much more but I wont rave more here.
Suffice to say, I'm happier with Linux than I ever was with Windows, and I should be allowed to say so without having to suffer the neurologically challenged diatribe of myopic luddites who have never used anything but Windows. Not everyone thinks or feels the same way you do.
90% of the workld's computer uers do though. That is why Windows has over 90% of the personal computer market, even while your precious Linux is stuck at a measely less than 2%.
For most offices in the planet, Microsoft Office is a must. You see, they need it to run their businesses.
You see, unlike you, most computer users buy a computer to run the applications they need, not to fight OS wars, or make a stupid politcal statement, or express their anti-Microsoft hate.
[CNET editors' note: Personal attacks deleted.]
Obviously 90% of the computer using population on the planet are not. That's why they chose Windows and have rejected linux by the hundreds of millions.
:"and I should be allowed to say so without having to suffer the neurologically challenged diatribe of myopic luddites who have never used anything but Windows"
That's rich coming from some foaming at the mouth, wild eyed , Microsoft-hating linux fanatic, who choses his operating system to fight OS wars, instead of looking on the computer as merely a tool to run all the applications he needs.
Again, most comouter usres on the planet don't give 2 hoots about Linux. All they care about is to get a machine to run applications that they need. Windows satisfies that requirement, so they buy Windows. Period.
Linux is "free" like a puppy is free.
For years I was scared to leave Windows. Why get a Mac? It won't run the thousands of apps I have installed (like someone needs that many apps?)... After switching I discovered that what I need, I still have. iLife is a personal (non-professional) media apps <in my idiot opinion> that beats the pants off any of the media apps I used to use with Windows. And guess what? iLife can't run in Windows.
Besides, I can run XP in a virtual machine plus I have it in bootcamp so I can boot directly to XP and run it with 100% of my computer's power. If I need some strange app that isn't on MacOSX, well, I can still run it. With my Mac I can run all Window apps along with all Linux apps and all Mac apps. So I do believe that my idiot Mac can run MORE APPS than your Windows PC.
Just cause I'm in the minority group doesn't make me wrong. Your arguments on having access to apps just doesn't hold water for me, since I can run more apps than a standard PC. Your argument of MS Office doesn't work for me either since I can run both Windows' Office & the Mac version, plus I prefer iWork (which can create PDF's, where Office can't). And your argument of Windows being so heavily entrenched on 90% of computers? I just don't care what everyone else is doing - I care about what I'm doing, and my Mac lets me do just that.
Sorry my bad. If you count servers and stuff it's much higher than that. Thanks for pointing it to me. Math is not compatible with Voodoo by the way
"...and that was over 10 years ago. " I am sorry but I wasnt using Linux back then as I told you. And as I told you : me not equal to Linux fanatic. There are idiots everywhere, M$ doesnt have the monopoly on that either.
I should make you notice that I am not insulting Windows users. You are the only fanatic here.
Severs?
Tell me this: How many servers are sold per year worldwide?
As compared to how many desktop/laptop PC's?
It's not even close.
Vastly more desktops/laptops are sold than servers, like less than 3% servers.
Not to mention Windows dominates server sales as well anyways.
You lose either way.
You do seem to love hanging around dont you? (Ok same as me right now but I wont stay for too long, I need to get some real work done here)
Who is paying you to spend your days around here?
Ok I will let you continue your propaganda here. You can declare victory against me all you want but I am sure the readers already decided of the winner. Also, unfortuantly for you there are enough Linux users to keep you busy here.
I think the other thing that may well help is the movement to ARM processors in netbooks. For people who really do want them for what they are designed for (web browsing, some basic word processing, maybe some video chat) then the extra battery time that will come from ARM processors will be a huge boon. It will also set Microsoft on a huge development catchup game. In reality it shouldn't take too much to recompile and tweak windows. We have seen from how long the delay between release candidate leak and official release candidate availability that when Microsoft moves it is forced to carry a lot of extra administrative luggage with it. I think this is potentially a good time for linux. Only time will tell though.
Goog'e is getting clobbered by Blackberry/Apple/Windows Mobile in the smartphone market. How do you think they are going to do in themuch tougher netbook market, where linux has just lost massively in market share from 90% to just 10%v share in just one year?
Android is just another form of linux after all. It's not gonna do any better in netbooks than other Linux versions did.
Consomers simply don't want Linux on their laptops/netbooks.
@ vikinzer :"I think the other thing that may well help is the movement to ARM processors in netbooks"
ARM will go as far on netbooks as other processots hae gotten on laptops..which is exactly NOWHERE. ARM is not the first "alternate" chip used in laptops. there habe been plenty before them. Al of them failed.
@ vikinzer :". For people who really do want them for what they are designed for (web browsing, some basic word processing, maybe some video chat) then the extra battery time that will come from ARM processors will be a huge boon. It will also set Microsoft on a huge development catchup game"
Oh puleeze.
ARM is getting nowhere on netbooks. Even if it did get a small market, Microsoft already has Windows Mobile, which already runs on ARM, and has been running on ARM long before andriod was even written, no?
There is no point in Microsoft porting Win 7 to ARM.
But hey, just keep on dreaming will ya?
Sorry my bad. If you count servers and stuff it's much higher than that. Thanks for pointing it to me. Math is not compatible with Voodoo by the way
"...and that was over 10 years ago. " I am sorry but I wasnt using Linux back then as I told you. And as I told you : me not equal to Linux fanatic. There are idiots everywhere, M$ doesnt have the monopoly on that either.
I should make you notice that I am not insulting Windows users. You are the only fanatic here.
- by Hellcat May 19, 2009 3:26 PM PDT
- True but that won't happen for many years. The only thing that will kick MS out of being #1 is a totally different design of an OS. Windows, mac os and linux look to much alike and still use mouse and keyboard to access. Maybe when someone comes out with good voice recognition navigation for an OS and maybe a virtual touch system (like Minority report or Earth Final Conflict), then MS will no longer be #1 (unless MS comes up with this new OS). I'm thinking 10 maybe 20+ years.
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