Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."
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2006-03-30
Yeah, I agree completely, thats what I'd like to see too. The point is, thanks to Microsoft's monopoly and business practices, thats NOT whats happening currently. I don't really think you can argue that Window's (Vista especially, but even XP) 'design & concepts' warrant the success (measured in install base) that it sees.
The point is even WITH Microsoft releasing a dud like Vista, its really hard for an operating like Linux, with plenty of technical merits, to make any inroads. This is thanks to the huge momentum Windows has, and Microsoft leverages at every chance they get to keep users unfairly locked in.