Windows 7 won’t make a Linux-based OS a desktop success
Filed under: Computers, Software | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: April 22, 2009 | 4 Comments
The idea of a Linux-based operating system becoming a desktop success was a nice idea, but it was never going to happen. The Linux-based OS was installed on a number of Netbooks, but users found themselves asking for the Vista alternative. Now the upcoming launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 looks set to add another nail in the Linux-based OS coffin.
Both Google and Linux have been doing all it can to try and take the market share away from Microsoft, but Windows is just too popular, and the upcoming launch of Windows 7 is not good news for Linux or Android and their idea of having a desktop success.
Windows Vista was not the greatest operating system, I still prefer XP, but Windows 7 is shaping up to be everything that Vista was not. You would have thought that a netbook running on Linux would have been more popular as it demands less of the hardware, but Microsoft was very clever with its pricing.
PC Magazine informs us that Microsoft only makes $15 per license on netbooks running Windows XP, that is not much profit, but it does guarantee one thing, Microsoft is using its deep pockets to win over users.
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“Never” is a big word. “Microsoft was very clever with its pricing.”? Microsoft is dancing to the GNU/Linux tune. What’s the retail price for Windows 7, $107? That’s the price I’ve seen. You can thank GNU/Linux and Open Source it’s not $307. You’re welcome.
Only $15 for selling people the same operating system over and over again?
That perfect. So all these newb idiots that blog about things they don’t understand can keep using windows. That would be fine by me. I for one am tired of all the hype, it was so much nicer 6, 7 years ago when only real Linux users ran Linux. Why do we need to gain desktop share anyway. Who cares, we’ll just keep developing open software and enjoy it.
Linux has desktop success, but people are too brain washed and lazy to try it, sure it’s different, but so it taking your old lady on the kitchen table, once you try it, its the best thing you ever had.
But the upside to this is, Linux is making windows give away there software, they can’t get rid of it otherwise. Nice to sit back and watch MS burn money because of a desktop operating system that doesn’t exist.
Please, all you gay windows users, stick with what you know, pay your software god, and leave the free and open software for the real geeks.
You have to be dumb, deaf, blind, and isolated. Because linux based os on the desktop is success.
Millions of computers with Linux preinstalled was sold through 2008. Millions of computers with Linux will be sold in 2009. Demand for Linux are increasing in all sectors.
Talking about the death of Linux are very stupid. Linux and GNU operating systems was doing fine even without being sold preinstalled on computers. Which was the case untill late 2007. Now cusomers have a choice, at least in most online shops. One third of Dells Mini 9 netbooks are sold with Ubuntu. Given the choice on equal hardware, one third will choose Ubuntu over Windows XP. There are no differences on return rates. This is success.
Microsoft will eventually die, Linux might not.