On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 07:34, rikona wrote: > Perhaps, but the number of PO'd people is relatively small, and M$ > really doesn't have to worry about them too much. They are extending > their political (and media) influence a lot, and that may be more > effective in keeping 'the linux enemy' at bay. In another era, the M$ > solution would be to send the PO'd people off to the gas chambers. > > I think we'll be hearing more bad stuff, especially when longhorn > arrives. Bend over, and get ready for the long horn. :-))
There is a growing angst towards M$ - and I'm getting to see it "on the streets". Many small biz owners and home owners (from 35 and above) are getting sick of the constant cycle of upgrading. I just finished building a brand new system (P4 3.0ghz + 1gb RAM) for a psychologist customer; after all was said and done, the machine happily at his home, he was surprised that XP didn't "fly" like he expected it to. I explained to him the bloat, the bad construct - which he did understand. He was rather happy with running his biofeedback applications through Win98 which DID fly - but lo and behold, Win98 drivers do not exist for his laptop, office machine and home machine, so it's effectively useless. The folks that build his applications have forced him to upgrade as well. After explaining further about the "future" - Longhorn - and it's hunger for even MORE higher end hardware and the likes, I showed him my ever present bootable liveCD of Knoppix and Ubuntu - which DID fly quite well. Ah. Even on the laptop, it flew. He likes the idea of running either the new Win4Lin or VMWare - as long as the hardware is accessible. He also likes the fact that no longer would have have to shell out heaps for WinXP and other associated applications. One time one off. He's not the only one. I have a heap of customers that are sick of their machines being down or useless due to bugs/virus/trojans/spyware...the only think keeping them down is their teenagers who are "hooked" on things like MSN and the likes...(GAIM does still have a way to go). I'm hoping that by the time Longborn hits the streets, I'll have a nice comfy permanent job somewhere in a linux/unix environment. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ----------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option. Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- David Letterman's "Things we can be proud of as Americans": * Greatest number of citizens who have actually boarded a UFO * Many newspapers feature "JUMBLE" * Hourly motel rates * Vast majority of Elvis movies made here * Didn't just give up right away during World War II like some countries we could mention * Goatees & Van Dykes thought to be worn only by weenies * Our well-behaved golf professionals * Fabulous babes coast to coast
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