In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:57:12 +0000
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> Has Microsoft conceded the desktop OS market to Linux?
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> | Microsoft has long dominated the home desktop Operating System market
> | while Unix and Unix-like systems have dominated the server and
> | datacenter world. Have Microsoft's continuous product delays,removal
> | of highly touted new features, addition of more intrusive DRM and the
> | introduction of a highly restrictive EULA sealed Microsoft's fate?
> `----
>
> http://www.openaddict.com/page.php?20
Erm....somehow, I doubt Linux has captured all that much
of the desktop market yet.
Emphasis on "yet". (The most optimistic figures I get
are in the 20% range, if that -- and that's for Firefox,
which can easily run on Windows as well as on Linux.
A more likely figure is 5%-6%. Of course the server
market seems to have a majority of Unix and Unix-like
servers running Apache.)
Still, it may only be a matter of time (and of instruction)
as people get more familiar with this freaky operating
system -- or what would have been Freakx or Freakos had
Linus gone with his first impulse. :-) (Thank you, Linus,
for *not* going with your first impulse in this particular
case. :-) )
And of course there are complications: dualboots, stealth
browsers miming IE because of dumb website programming,
proxies such as Akamai, etc.
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