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____/ Tony on Saturday 02 August 2008 07:22 : \____
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:24:38 +0000, 7 wrote:
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> Linux preinstalls rocket to three per cent
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>>> | Microsoft is still be shipped with 93 per cent of all PCs sold
>>> through | distribution in the UK, according to Context. |
>>> | Yet Linux has nevertheless made an impressive gain. `----
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>>> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/01
>> linux-preloads-rocket-per-cent
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>> If 7% of the PCs are shipping with something other than Micoshaft OSen,
>> then it means that the sport of shipping PCs without a Micoshaft OS has
>> gone mainstream.
>>
>> Businesses can justify not fitting a micoshaft OSen when shipping a PC
>> because shipping PCs without Micoshaft Osen is now an established
>> mainstream defacto option!
>>
>> If Linux desktop now adds another 4% gain, then Linux desktops would
>> also become mainstream OS (at least in the UK).
>
> ...and I can confirm that Linux is gaining many fans in the UK. The
> problem arises when the general consensus of opinion from people living in
> the US think that the USA is the whole world and nothing of note goes on
> outside it. The EU is trying it's best to cut Microsoft down to size, but
> I doubt if this will make any difference to the big picture. Has anyone
> noticed that according to Distrowatch, Ubuntu comes from the Isle of Man,
> and Mint from Ireland?
Debian (Murdock), BLAG, and of course of the first-ever GNU/Linux
distribution: MCC (Manchester Computing Centre).
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~~ Best of wishes
Microsoft loves competition.
"I’m thinking of hitting the OEMs harder than in the past with anti-Linux. ...
they should do a delicate dance"
--Joachim Kempin, Microsoft OEM Chief
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