Linux and its closing window of opportunity with OEMs
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| Right now, the following factors are true:
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| * Linux has a very viable desktop and office suite--for free.
| OpenOffice being bloated is basically not an issue anymore,
| since even a basic computer today will run OpenOffice completely
| fine. Thanks to Ubuntu, end users can now use Linux and not notice
| the difference.
| * Again thanks to Ubuntu, Linux is amazingly simple to configure.
| * Computers are getting cheaper and cheaper. I am using a $950
| laptop, and it's an amazing machine which will probably last
| many years.
| * Linux?s hardware support is impressive.
| * Vista is being released. All the anti-piracy procedures will
| annoy users immensely. Plus, Vista is a new system: a big break
| from XP.
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| Microsoft lobbying. There is no conspiracy theory here: it's
| something everybody knows. Executives of big companies are being
| pressured (see blackmailed) so that they will never allow people to
| buy a Linux laptop.
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