__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 09 March 2007 16:34 \__
> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:47:03 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Desktop Predictions for 2007-2008
>>>
>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>| 1. Apple will license Mac OS X to OEMs this year (2007) while Vista
>>>| sales are still sluggish.
>>>|
>>>| 2. Mac OS X sales will surge wildly and end up accounting for up to
>>>| 25% of all new PC shipments by the end of 2007.
>>>|
>>>| 3. Emboldened by Apple's success, Sun will push GNU/OpenSolaris
>>>| to corporations in 2008. The system will probably be called "The
>>>| Liberty Desktop".
>>>|
>>>| 4. Linux will be seen as "ready for the desktop" once desktop
>>>| diversity becomes the norm. Linux will dominate the low-cost
>>>| desktop segment thereafter.
>>>`----
>>>
>> I think that the Google Goobuntu project might be very significant.
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
>>
>> These guys have the resources to make a huge impact in the Linux
>> world.
>>
>
> The article is good, but I wouldn't say that there's anything hard to
> use in Ubuntu now, let alone needing further development. Maybe the
> register reporter just wants it to look exactly like Windows.
DiBona explicitly said that they would not make Goobuntu public. Then again,
over a year ago at a conference, Brin stubbornly dismissed rumours that
Google were working on an Office Suite. Fast forward 2 years...
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