TechIQ’s Founder: Leaping From Windows to Mac OS or Linux?
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| So, I put it to everyone out there: What should I do next? Bite the bullet
| and stick with the devil I know (Windows); move back to Mac (I was a Mac user
| for nearly a decade before Apple’s debacle with Performa); or transition to
| Linux? Or maybe something else?
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http://techiqmag.com/2007/11/16/techiqs-founder-leaping-from-windows-to-mac-os-or-linux/
Microsoft will Die, part 2
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| I did end up talking a lot about free software but that is just because there
| is very little non-free software out there that isn’t Unix. Unix is great but
| is it becoming less important as business move away from it towards
| Gnu/Linux. On top of that the one Unixen I did mention is free; the world
| seems to be moving towards free software so that is what I had to discuss.
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http://randomviking.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/microsoft-will-die-part-2/
Related:
Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
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| Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several months
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html
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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html
Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey
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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their
| Linux distribution of choice.
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html
Survey: Desktop Linux use grows
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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux,
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users
| in the past year.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html
Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...
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| Among silicon.com readers at least, the most recent iteration of Windows -
| aka Vista - garnered just 14 per cent of the vote, making it less popular
| than both Mac OS X and Linux.
|
| [...]
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| Another reader - going by the name Richard A - said he was "shocked" at how
| slow the OS ran on a new Intel core duo Sony Vaio laptop. "Why anybody would
| willingly trade a stable and established XP environment for the wading though
| treacle experience of driverless Vista is quite utterly beyond me," he said,
| adding: "Granted, it has borrowed a few nice flourishes from the Apple Mac
| user interface but it really has little else to recommend it above XP. Apart
| from security, of course."
|
| Neil Thatcher, an IT manager from the South East, summed up many readers'
| views with his Reader Comment: "The changes to Vista over XP are simply gloss
| and change for change's sake which translate as nothing more than
| annoyances."
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| Microsoft was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39169139,00.htm
Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows
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| Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow
| over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an
| enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts.
|
| [...]
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| "The high volume of client inquiries for Linux on the desktop clearly
| indicates it's not going away any time soon. Expect Linux to experience
| growth over the next year as the distributors work hard to make it an
| enterprise-class offering,"
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2217087,00.asp
New Day Dawning for Desktop Linux?
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| Has the time for desktop Linux finally arrived? One relevant data point is
| that Wal-Mart has sold out of the Everex gPC, a Google-friendly, Linux-based
| PC priced at $199.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071114/bs_nf/56737
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