Posted on 10/27/2014 1:00:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ok, you showed the desktop percentages ... now where are the data center / server percentages?
Edit to add. The chart I showed is a little dated.
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Nadella is an idiot and wont be there very long.
Can you elaborate as to why?
First it was that whole dust up at the women’s conference and now this. Regardless of your position on Linux it’s a bad idea for a Microsoft exec to push it.
Windows is dominant because it comes pre-installed on nearly every PC on earth.
Linux doesn’t have that advantage.
It makes sense for Microsoft to push its products on as many operating systems as possible.
Back in the day, Microsoft used to do that on Macs.
Maybe its time for the company to broaden its horizons.
And that’s the problem with LINUX.... it does not have a huge marketing or sales force the way Microsoft has.
Otherwise, they would work with every PC maker to have THEIR PRODUCT pre-installed as an alternative to Windows.
Linux will have one more user later today; I’m converting a former XP box to Ubuntu.
Linux has come a long way, but the only real desktop BASED OS of Unix that has any sort of market share is Mac OSX.
That isn’t going to change anytime soon, however the disaster that is windows 8 has and will continue to push more and more folks over to Mac.
I really think the damage Windows 8 debacle has done to has yet to be fully understood. I do not remotely expect Windows 10 to undo the damage.
I love PowerPoint presentations. Brilliant colors, nice pie charts, a little musical intro and closing, s/fx for bullet points and they remind me of my first version of Microsoft Office. Oh how I loved forking over the moola for THAT. So nostalgic... Also, PowerPoints make me drowsy.
That’s the same argument that gun haters use. It’s the person giving the presentation NOT the software used. BTW, only a moron shows a slide and reads all the bullet points.
What distro are you going with?
Ive been turning some converts such as yourself on to Mint 17 recently.
I downloaded straight up Ubuntu. Ill see how I like it.
Was a professional unix admin in the 90s ...
I installed my firs Linux distro ten years ago (Red Hat) and have had a computer or two running it since. It is pretty good now, but still not ready for prime time with the normal crowd that can’t copy a file. It is also not ready for business desktops because it doesn’t run the software they want (without creating a technical situation they can’t or won’t navigate). The apps that it must run are Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, and Exchange (latest edition). Let’s not forget Quickbooks either. It also has to work with all of their existing hardware. For home users it must run Word and PC Games.
As it stands right now, Mac has the graphics/video and hipster market and PC owns business, gaming and most of the home desktop market.
I have to have Linux so I can safely click on email that my uncle Bob sends me and I’m addicted to Gnome Mahjong.
You ought to do just fine then ;-)
Tools are better today than they used to be.
here's something you might like...
PS1=\w `if [ $? = 0 ]; then echo :\\); else echo :\\(; fi`
That will make your prompt a smiley if the last command succeeded, and a frowny if it failed. Take out the \w if you don't want the system name to preface the prompt
zeugma1:~ :) true
zeugma1:~ :) false
zeugma1:~ :( true
zeugma1:~ :)
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