According to this article, Microsoft is ‘indoctrinating’ Best Buy droids with the Windows 7 message.
A little backgrounder: a finance ‘reporter’ from AOHELL goes into Best Buy looking to purchase a Linux Netbook.
After finding that outside of freetard yabbling, no one actually stocks those dinosaurs in the real world, the ‘reporter’ decides to dig up some yobless truants, and ask their opinions of what may have happened.
According to the Linuxheads, “Linux, they say, can do most everything Windows 7 can, and is actually cheaper and more reliable. And of course, Linux advocates point out the fact that their operating system is mostly immune to many of the bugs, spyware, and viruses that have caused so much havoc on Windows machines and servers around the world.”
Really?
Money quote: "Linux for consumers is coming, and Microsoft wants to delay that while they figure out what their strategy is going to be," according to some anonymous freetard.
Folks, let me say this again: it ain’t happening!
What we should be thankful for is the work Linux did in creating the netbook market.
From Nicki Negroponte and the OLPC, to Asus and the eePC, Linux created this market. In fact, while Intel and Microsoft were spinning their respective wheels, Linux, with it’s customary small footprint helped define what a netbook should be.
However, the primacy of Linux was fleeting.
Why?
What do you think dashed expectations and an 80% return rate would do to your product and/or marketing dreams?
Into the void cause by unrealized expectations (from purchasers of Linux-powered netbooks, strolls Microsoft. With a decidedly superior product, 100% compatibility with most software, and the marketing might of the wonks up in Redmond.
- Small footprint? Check.
- Lower hardware requirements? Check.
- Lower cost? Check.
- The Microsoft Blessing? Big check!
There you have it.
Would you bet your buying decision on a POS (piece of excrement) operating systems being patched by a group of potential ID thieves working feverishly from their respective grannies’ basements from Qaanaaq to Ushuaia?
Would you?
Or on a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of programmers with your best interests – and dollars, of course – at heart?
However, nothing I write here is more telling than one simple fact: the market has spoken…
…and rejected Linux is all (client) forms.
No matter how cheap.
Incredibly, the Linux cattle are looking for a government, any government, to mandate Linux. Since it cannot succeed on its own hyped (and thoroughly debunked) merits.
If people would rather pay $$$ for a Microsoft operating system, or even more $$$$ for a Mac, what does that say about Linux?
Repeat my little diddy from a while back:
“You will not be able to download any distro, freetard.
You will not be able to use plug-n-play, just turn on the system, and get it to work.
You will not be able to lose yourself in movies streamed from Netflix, and skip,
Skip out for Jolt, or any other energy drink during downloading from torrents.
Because the Linux revolution will not be televised”
With the greatest respect to Gil Scott-Heron*.
There will NOT be any (desktop) Linux revolution.
Period!!!
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