On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:04 PM, harrismh777 <harrismh...@charter.net> wrote: > The deal with motive number (2) is that there are fewer and fewer teams who > are concerned with interoperability. For instance (my team), we moved our > stuff to gnulinux based systems and dumped Microsoft completely... we have > no need for them at all (they're dead). The Linux Foundation president made > a splash the other day by saying that bashing Microsoft was like kicking a > puppy (the server cloud war is over, and Microsoft lost... big). The desktop > is all that is left... and that is dying... rapidly. Their lockin is well > entrenched (like Borg implants ) but the number of mom & pops ( like my > entire extended family, for instance) who are moving to Ubuntu (themselves) > is astounding! It will not be long and Microsoft will die... and none too > soon.
So what is that number? Anecdotes are unreliable; I would like to see the actual data. The only non-techie I personally know who uses Linux is my wife, and she only uses it because it's what's installed at home. My brother-in-law was a Linux fan at one time but has regressed. > IE is dead. It is flat dead... almost nobody is using it... not even > die-hard Windows gaming fanboys... we're on our way to freedom. I'm sorry, but that is patently false. Just look at the actual data: http://www.getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/ http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0&qptimeframe=M# http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201103-201103-bar http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php?year=2011&month=3 Depending on the source, IE's market share is anywhere from 39% to 56%, and all of those sources list it higher than Firefox or any other single browser. To say "IE is dead" is either prevarication or unsubstantiated wishful thinking. Cheers, Ian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
