Posted by: PerlCoder
on November 09, 2008 08:12 AM
The title is very encouraging -- but I think perhaps the author is a little too optimistic. The author said 3 out of every 10 netbooks sold are running Linux. That's great, but they are only netbooks, and those little netbooks with their tiny screens, snail processors, and crunched keyboards don't really present Linux in its best light. And don't think that Microsoft doesn't have plenty of marketing schemes that they will be willing to pull out once the release of 7 draws near.
I'm just saying that Microsoft's been playing this game for a long time, and they're going to spend whatever resources are necessary to maintain the general conception among consumers that Windows is the only way to do desktop. So I think FOSS developers are going to have to be really diligent if we expect to have a chance at taking a noticable chunk of the desktop market share next year.
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Posted by: PerlCoder on November 09, 2008 08:12 AMI'm just saying that Microsoft's been playing this game for a long time, and they're going to spend whatever resources are necessary to maintain the general conception among consumers that Windows is the only way to do desktop. So I think FOSS developers are going to have to be really diligent if we expect to have a chance at taking a noticable chunk of the desktop market share next year.
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