Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Mar 2008 23:04 UTC
"When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most 'modular' yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS. A singular yet highly modular OS could give Microsoft the best of all possible worlds: OSes that can be highly customized for deployment but developed monolithically. One modular OS to rule them all, let's say."
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RE[5]: One more nail in Vista's coffin
by gustl on Mon 24th Mar 2008 11:30
in reply to "RE[4]: One more nail in Vista's coffin"
Member since:2006-01-19
You are right.
Broad Linux adoption on the Desktop will happen only when it comes pre-installed AND the OEM feeds his knowledge upstream to the distributions he ships, so that upgrades go through painless.
I see this happen with Dell at the moment. Here Linux is less prominently advertized than Windows, but that may be due to lack of support staff they may have, so that selling too many Linux boxes would result into a collapse of the support system.
I hope, that over time, Dell will move their Linux offers into the normal store, as an option to choose from.
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2006-01-16
Dude, I know Linux and have slowly switched over to only open source apps but still mostly use Windows out off convenience because I, like most humans, am lazy. Believe it or not but so far only one person has come to me because they wanted to switch to Linux and that didn't go so well (Linux on a laptop with wi-fi about 4 years ago, cheap hardware).
From my dealings with Joe User I can tell you that many of them don't know what an OS is, that Microsoft isn't a PC manufacturer or that MS Office isn't free.
I don't care about the average user right now, I care about myself, because I am unhappy with Windows. Like I said, I'm lazy, and while I can set up X.org, install a boot loader, configure my NIC so that I can get on the Internet, I don't want to. I don't want to have to deal with this crap because an installer has a bug or because an upgrade went wrong.
Do you really think that if I wont move my ass that Average Joe User will?