Windows 7 is enough to kill Linux on the desktop

[geoffro]

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Originally Posted by Purpur

Well dudes, maybe you can help me on this one?
Please don´t leave me.

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Thanks for all help in advance!
-P.-

[TheMask]

Thank you for your advice.

-p.

[saahne]

Originally Posted by dragonbite

Windows 7 is enough to kill Linux on the desktop - The Inquirer

They Reg is amusing but sometimes a little nutty. It's like saying the recent fall in gas prices has killed alternative energy vehicles. The claim might have been credible sometime in the last century.

Microsoft worries and will continue to worry about Linux a lot--whether Linux becomes a force on the desktop or not. But what does it means to be "on the desktop"? Maybe the only place Microsoft will be left to dominate is on the desktop but even then everyone will be running lots of open source apps or cloud apps on their desktop, and the cloud apps will be running on Linux servers. And chances are your Windows machine will come with a quick boot Linux anyway, which you might use quite a lot of the time. And your mobile phone and all those media devices in your home, that you may connect to your Windows desktop now and then, are already or probably soon will be running some type of Linux or other open source OS, even if 95% of users don't realize this to be the case and don't care what the OS is as long as it works. Windows 7 needs to be a huge success for Microsoft, and maybe it will be given that early reports seem to be fairly positive, but it probably doesn't really matter one way or another over the longer term.

This is more revealing than anything you are likely to read in the Reg: Microsoft's failed attempt to wean Intel off Linux (Asay's take on internal Microsoft e-mails on Intel's use of Linux from the Comes v. Microsoft case via Paranoid Roy).

[dragonbite]

Originally Posted by saahne

Microsoft worries and will continue to worry about Linux a lot--whether Linux becomes a force on the desktop or not. But what does it means to be "on the desktop"? Maybe the only place Microsoft will be left to dominate is on the desktop but even then everyone will be running lots of open source apps or cloud apps on their desktop, and the cloud apps will be running on Linux servers.

That is one thought.. what is the "desktop" because between laptops, netbooks, smart phones, set-top boxes, etc. the use of Linux is still growing and the market is changing from being chained to a computer to using computers like appliances.

[henkees]

Windows 7 is enough to kill Linux on the desktop...



Best joke ever!

Windows 7 is enough to kill Windows

[GofBorg]

Actually, nobody deems Linux a threat to Windows desktops anyway.
Read the pundits reaction to Windows 7.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/..._chance_1.html

[beli0135]

All of this discussion points out that Linux has to prove itself to the big brother, and actual situation is otherwise...
We just need to make linux better for us and for whoever wants to use it.

[GofBorg]

> All of this discussion points out that Linux has to prove itself to the
> big brother, and actual situation is otherwise...
> We just need to make linux better for us and for whoever wants to use
> it.

Yep I mean that is really Apple's approach. What Linux needs is a glitzy
hardware vendor that will actually market it. I was at a Novell conference
where HP was presenting, I asked why there were no ads for Linux on HP's all
the ads are about Windows.

He was quite frank...nobody is paying us.

[KaptRoger]

Linux is an unstoppable force.

Its free. Its brilliant, and what it lacks it will obtain. (Sounds good)

Windows has not stopped Linux in its various forms from gaining 5% (?) of the desktops so far. There is no reason why it should not continue to grow.

If windows was that good then surely Linux would have been stamped out already.

It will take a long time for the "war" to be won (10-15 more years) but it will happen. Linux is a superior product. Windows is good but bloatware and the true will out (arguement: windows7 is Vista but on current hardware !!!)

[Caleb_IX]

Windowas 7 shows how afraid microsoft is of alernativ software and how bad was the start of vista...

;-) MS should be afraid of EU...seems like MS have to get out the browser of the operating system and pay another time for damage the market!!!

Microsoft...

...EU hates you!
...We hate you!
...we don t need your winblows!