RE: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the market

  • From: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:07:18 -0500

I disagree,  My wife loves it. Linspire that is.  Looks like Win2k, acts
like Win2k, but much faster & stable.


Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 4:04 PM
To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows, will rule in the next 8 years in the
market

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:49:29 +0000, Niall Litchfield
<niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:04:44 -0500, Goulet, Dick <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>=20
> Desktops are a different story.
>=20

Amen to that.  Linux has a long road ahead before becoming a viable
desktop.

As a desktop, windows works out of the box, Linux doesn't.

The technically savvy user can make it work, but the average user can't,
and should not have to.

My std argument:  try opening WMV, MPEG and quicktime in your
email on linux (I'm using evolution).  It's easy to setup, once you find
out
how.  The problem is twofold:  it is not easy to discover how to set it
up, and you should not have to.


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Jared Still
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