Comments on: Linux Netbooks: Hit Microsoft where it ain't

Linux-based Netbooks have a better chance of displacing Microsoft if they're designed with the smartphone market in mind, rather than the personal computer market.

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@ Kwasiowusu:

"90% of the workld's computer uers do though"

Really ? So how many "thousands" of Windows applications do you actually use ?


"That is why Windows has over 90% of the personal computer market"

You mean the personal computer market where consumers are confronted at the computer superstore with row upon row of Vista PC's where they don't get a choice ?


"even while your precious Linux is stuck at a measely less than 2%"

Says who ? Net Applications ? Gartner ? Not exactly reliable sources of information you know. Gartner for example (their biggest client being Microsoft) have been exposed whoring for Microsoft with dodgy figures more than once, and Net Applications' data is restricted to the US and Canada, and they wont disclose how they arrived at their 1% figure. The fact is that nobody has reliable figures on actual uptake and usage.


"For most offices in the planet, Microsoft Office is a must. You see, they need it to run their businesses"

I am well aware of the reality of what Offices and businesses need and use, its part of my job. But of course you have ignore the fact that I wasn't talking about office use, I was talking about my own personal use.


"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."

This is simply getting silly, and is a misrepresentation of my post.


"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."

Most computer users don't even know they have a choice, and most do not choose an OS, they simply buy what the salesperson tells them is good. This is not a rejection of Linux, "by the hundreds of millions", this kind of hyperbole is just more silliness.


"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."

You're the one indulging in personal attacks the editor has to delete, so who is "foaming at the mouth" here ? And here come the stereotypical attacks, "Microsoft-hating linux fanatic" and "OS wars" blah blah... you really need to get out more. I like what I use and it does everything I want, I'm more than happy with it. And not being able to say I really like the tools I use without enduring attacks from the likes of you are exactly what I was talking about.


"Again, most comouter usres on the planet don't give 2 hoots about Linux"

I don't care. I use what I like, not what you like.


"All they care about is to get a machine to run applications that they need. Windows satisfies that requirement, so they buy Windows. Period."

If Windows is what you want, then use Windows...


"Linux is "free" like a puppy is free."

This is just a strange comment...

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Kwasiowusu has been astroturfing for Microsoft on cnet since 2006.