The 2007 road map for the Ubuntu Linux operating system includes continuing its focus on the desktop, paying more attention to the server and garnering additional corporate support. Speaking at Ubuntu user conference UbuCon at Google's New York complex on Feb. 16, Steve George, director of support and services at Canonical, said, "The view from the Ubuntu side is that Microsoft has too much of the market. We're going to continue rolling out and making Ubuntu easy to use on the desktop and we'll add increased focus on the server this year."
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Member since:2005-11-11
The funny thing is that another poll asking what people where using before, about 50% were actually using a windows os before they made a switch. I doubt anyone of them knew the difference between KDE or GNOME. Still they are happy with their choice. 
If they didn't know the difference, who's to say they wouldn't have been happier with KDE had that been the default in Ubuntu? It's hard to call Gnome "their" choice if the DE was chosen for them.
The question then still open whether even more Linux and Windows users would switch if KDE was an option, and polls of people already using Gnome and polls of people who might not even know of the difference between Gnome and KDE still don't mean anything. The manifest popularity of Ubuntu is its own argument really, I just don't see the point in citing polls whose outcome is obvious based on who is being polled.
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2005-10-27
No, he made it look like everyone wants KDE and noone likes GNOME.
Well what do you expect a poll of people already using Ubuntu would say?
The funny thing is that another poll asking what people where using before, about 50% were actually using a windows os before they made a switch. I doubt anyone of them knew the difference between KDE or GNOME. Still they are happy with their choice.