Microsoft Linux - Myth or Reality ???

[GamingX]

Microsoft Linux, that's a laugh, have you ever thought of Bill Gates giving out free opensource softare. It is like putting back the toothpaste back in the tube. Linux will always be free and unlike microsoft they won't charge you anything.

[Whitewolf]

Agreed, i think Microsoft is starting to realize that their days of complete power are coming to an end and are trying desperately to secure other branches of the market

[Sup3rkirby]

Well, I'm not MS fanatic, but of course I always feel that Microsoft takes more than it should. You see girls and boys, while Windows may not be the best thing out there, and Linux does seem to be on a wonderful rise, I must note something important(that Microsoft remembers). If you walk into a store today and buy a PC, you will get Windows. The problem with linux is educating average users to use it.

I did once see that Dell sold some PCs with Linux factory installed, but that was online. Still no store bought PCs. It is like IE and Firefox. Sure, in many ways Firefox is better, but Firefox doesn't come preinstalled on your store bought PC. IE does however. For some reason most users are lazy and won't go out of their way to get some different software. Heck people buy MS Office when Open Office works just as well(from what I've seen), only it is about $150 on MS Office when they need Spreadsheets or something.

So whether anyone likes it or not, Microsoft not only dominates the field in almost all aspects of PCs, but they are still in the lead with barely anything in sight(behind them). I still think it will be years(at least 10) before Microsoft is truely hurt by the competition.

And once more, Vista is much better than anyone will credit it. It sold 40 million copies from what I've read, and aside from that, it is actually better than XP. YES, I said better. Sure, it eats 512 Mb of RAM every morning for breakfast, and then some more for lunch, but with todays computers we have enough RAM and processing power to handle it. Notice how the day Vista was released all the computer packages changed. Now dual core is standard as well as 1 GB of RAM.

I don't think this is in any way MS being worried the least bit about Linux coming up from behind them. If you carefully read the article, Microsoft is actually working with Novell, and it is hard to say that if they were worried, they will be of any assistance to their competitors.

Mac is the competition for MS right now and they are still a ways behind. Apples whole "we will only sell our OS with our hardware" thing is probably a big problem. So in the future(at least 10 years from now) Linux could be a real problem for MS, not so much because it is free, but because it runs on a PC, so there is an alternative to Microsoft's OS that can become popular enough and easy enough to obtain.


Just wait for it all. Companies will put Linux on their systems as the factory default and that is when Linux will rise. A slightly cheaper system that has the same specs as a more expensive system, and the Linux system would run a bit faster(lighter OS). And once that gets out, then developers will make more things for Linux(for instance, games). So then in this time span we will have a rise in Linux and it will be the only hope in bringing down MS(which of course will be after Bill leaves).