re: Bad advice! Friday, February 23, 2007 at 12:50 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Larry (1292 messages posted) Correct. About fifteen to twenty years ago some tech observer prophetically noted: "The roadside is litered with the corpses of would be Microsoft killers." It's still true today. Apple has always languished at five to eight percent of the PC market, and if they didn't have the iPod and iTunes today they would be on oxygen now or probably dead. Linux will stay a geek oddity as far as the desktop goes, though it will continue to find pretty wide usage as a highly customized OS for embedded applications in cell phones and the like and some servers too. I predict that if we're still around in twenty more years the landscape will be pretty much the same IMHO... On Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 2:27 pm, flexigirl wrote: > > >The issue at hand was about cpu usage and how many clicks it took to do a simple >job, not about the personal choice of operating system. > >Incidently linux is hardly user friendly to the average user plus your very limited >by what software you can actually run even when you can name alternatives. > >Bash gates software all you like, it has market share for good reason despite its >flaws. Written in response to: re: Bad advice! (flexigirl: Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 2:27 pm) Responses to this message: re: Bad advice! (Dave: Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 3:43 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] windows vista made a shameful crime (kilipukki: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 5:15 am) re: windows vista made a shameful crime (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 6:57 am) re: windows vista made a shameful crime (flexigirl: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 9:18 am) Bad advice! (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 10:06 am) re: Bad advice! (flexigirl: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 2:21 pm) re: Bad advice! (Adam W.: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 5:02 pm) re: Bad advice! (Dave: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 1:38 pm) re: Bad advice! (flexigirl: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 2:27 pm) re: Bad advice! (Larry: Fri, Feb 23, 2007, 12:50 pm) re: Bad advice! (Dave: Sat, Feb 24, 2007, 3:43 pm) re: Bad advice! (WylM5: Thu, Mar 8, 2007, 5:53 pm) re: Bad advice! (Dave: Sun, Mar 11, 2007, 5:13 pm) re: Bad advice! (WylM5: Sun, Mar 11, 2007, 9:29 pm) re: windows vista made a shameful crime (Steve: Wed, Feb 21, 2007, 5:56 pm) re: windows vista made a shameful crime (Dave: Thu, Feb 22, 2007, 1:43 pm) re: windows vista made a shameful crime (Steve: Fri, Feb 23, 2007, 11:17 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum