According to Robin Harris, a ZDNet blogger, “Windows 7 is the final nail in the desktop Linux market’s coffin. Unless Microsoft gets stupid on pricing, it is game over for Linux netbook market share.”
WTF?
It’s always interesting to hear from a publication where most of the articles are somehow related to Microsoft products and where Microsoft advertises. Still, I wasn’t aware Windows 7 had yet been released, let alone started driving nails into the “Linux market’s coffin”.
You have to wonder why, other than a heavy reliance on Microsoft, someone at ZDNet would even say something so moronic. Then we read, “Not that Microsoft got off easy. Their 5,000 man layoff is a direct result of the cost of competing with Linux – their client business revenue slid $335 million.”
Suddenly, I can see how Mr. Harris independently and spontaneously came to his conclusion a piece-of-crap operating system, which hasn’t yet been officially released, has already soundly defeated an actual operating system that works great.
It’s Not the Year of Linux – Again
I don’t know about anyone else who uses Linux and shuns Windoze but I get awfully sick and tired of reading this kind of crap on a regular basis. First of all, these bozos predict every year is ‘the year of Linux”, then they say it wasn’t — or it isn’t — ‘the year of Linux’ and ‘Linux is dead’.
Linux is a failure. Linux is awful. Linux will never succeed. Linux sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah we get it, Microsoft.
As if we cared…
As if we wanted everyone in the world adopting Linux as their operating system…
I already spend a significant amount of my time helping people keep their Windoze systems operational. The last thing in the world I need is everyone switching to Linux!
My advice? Wait until Vista (a word no longer mentioned in polite society or advertisements) is released as Windows 7, then kill off Linux — again. It would make more sense and it would make Microsoft look a little less paranoid and a little less desperate.
