[Novalug] Is Microsoft dying???

[Doug Needham]

It is all a matter of perspective. 
Microsoft will continue to be a large presence in the corporate market, 
unfortunately for us Linux folks.
However, I think the key to the article is these two words: "consumer brand" 

Consumers are less interested in buying Microsoft things. They want cool 
gadgets. The "consumer" is fickle and always looking for the next new thing. 

Microsoft is now pretty much embedded in big businesses. They have some consumer 
things, but overall are pretty lacking in this area. 


Overall I think Linux has always been in a similar boat. Linux (RH, Suse, 
CentOS, UBUNTU, what have you) by itself is not a "consumer" product. They don't 
care about the nuts and bolts. 


We are the platform on which cool things run, and these cool things run better 
on Open Source than Windows any day. 







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From: John Warren <jpwarren00 at gmail.com>
To: Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org>
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Sent: Wed, October 27, 2010 10:42:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Is Microsoft dying???

It's just a flesh wound.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:
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