Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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RE[4]: Customers don't want Linux
by boldingd on Wed 4th Nov 2009 16:28
in reply to "RE[3]: Customers don't want Linux"
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"Building a hardware device that doesn't work for Windows would be an extremely poor business decision.
Dependson your definition of "working". There's plenty of hardware that supposedly work but are hampered by buggy drivers or by simply not being of very high quality. I've had quite a few items (examples: USB ethernet nic, USB wireless nic) that worked out of the box in Linux (and OpenBSD) but required me to go hunting for reasonably working drivers for Windows. "
I've had that happen too; I had it happen maybe three or four years ago, where my on-board gigabit ethernet worked in the Slackware of the day, but not Windows XP.
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Dependson your definition of "working". There's plenty of hardware that supposedly work but are hampered by buggy drivers or by simply not being of very high quality. I've had quite a few items (examples: USB ethernet nic, USB wireless nic) that worked out of the box in Linux (and OpenBSD) but required me to go hunting for reasonably working drivers for Windows.
That doesn't mean there aren't issues with that, or other, hardware.
Perhaps but that's a different problem
Having never used iTunes I wouldn't know. I will agree that I'm not very happy about any of the audio players in Linux though. That's not saying they're not working, I just don't like how they work.