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Moshe Goldfarb
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Re: [News] SJVN admits - "Linux is lowe-end" computing.
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:55:24 -0400, josh fickler wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
> news:1424995.idisEzFXlP@schestowitz.com...
>> Windows is caught between Mac and Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a
>> percentage
>>| of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but,
>> while
>>| no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux
>> desktop
>>| market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making impressive inroads
>> into
>>| Windows' once unchallenged market share.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| How Microsoft deals, or fails to deal, with this new challenge will
>> determine
>>| if Windows continues to be the dominant desktop operating system.
>> Distracted
>>| by its Yahoo buyout plans, its courtroom failures and its leadership
>> changes,
>>| Microsoft is in trouble, and that means the other desktop operating
>> systems
>>| have their best chance ever to knock Windows off the top of the desktop
>> hill.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8541837412.html
>>
>
> This nut has been predicting the end of Microsoft and the linux dominatation
> of the desktop for years now. How's that working out for ya?
>
> I like this quote the best - "I see two strong trends here. On the high end,
> people are buying Macs instead of Windows PC. On the low end, Linux is
> eating Windows alive."
>
> So according to him "Macs are high-end" and "Linux is low-end" with Windows
> in the middle. Thanks for finally admitting that linux is sub-part to
> Windows.
Linux is still sitting at about 0.6 percent of the desktop market.
Even though Linux is free and has been around for ten or more years.
That's pretty pathetic.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:55:24 -0400, josh fickler wrote:
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
> news:1424995.idisEzFXlP@schestowitz.com...
>> Windows is caught between Mac and Linux
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a
>> percentage
>>| of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but,
>> while
>>| no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux
>> desktop
>>| market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making impressive inroads
>> into
>>| Windows' once unchallenged market share.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| How Microsoft deals, or fails to deal, with this new challenge will
>> determine
>>| if Windows continues to be the dominant desktop operating system.
>> Distracted
>>| by its Yahoo buyout plans, its courtroom failures and its leadership
>> changes,
>>| Microsoft is in trouble, and that means the other desktop operating
>> systems
>>| have their best chance ever to knock Windows off the top of the desktop
>> hill.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8541837412.html
>>
>
> This nut has been predicting the end of Microsoft and the linux dominatation
> of the desktop for years now. How's that working out for ya?
>
> I like this quote the best - "I see two strong trends here. On the high end,
> people are buying Macs instead of Windows PC. On the low end, Linux is
> eating Windows alive."
>
> So according to him "Macs are high-end" and "Linux is low-end" with Windows
> in the middle. Thanks for finally admitting that linux is sub-part to
> Windows.
Linux is still sitting at about 0.6 percent of the desktop market.
Even though Linux is free and has been around for ten or more years.
That's pretty pathetic.
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
Please visit The Hall of Linux Idiots:
http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/