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Don't agree here

>>>I have repeatedly said that if Linux wants the end user (not necessarily the desktop) then their efforts should be in the home.<<<

The market for desktop systems is the business environment. Tell me, how many home users buy 300-1000 or more machines at a time?

MS has the game market. At least for now. It is a low priority. Giving businesses more secure machines with fewer vulnerabilities and fewer crashes is where the money is. Games are not on the priority list for business users. The last time I checked our company policy forbad playing games. We don't hire people to come in and play games. We hire people to come in and work on business oriented material. Of course, they don't like the 10 extra breaks, from all the crashes, they get every day using MS being taken away from them when we switch them to Linux. Oh, well.

Linux started in the server room. It is well on its way to dominance there. The next target is business desktops. The 0.01% of users that want to play games will still be stuck with MS for a while. Can't help that for now. You seem to forget it took MS almost a quarter century, and every dirty trick in the book plus a few more they invented along the way, to get where they are. Linux is well on its way there after just a decade. The amazing thing is they've done it by providing a better system and being honest with customers. I guess MS will never learn customers are much more receptive to honesty than they are to a whip.

It will take time. No doubt. But, then, who is in a hurry? Its not as though Linux needs to gouge its customers to stay alive, is it?

What's with this 'media center'? I do not recall seeing folks lined-up at Best Buy hoping they didn't sell out of media center boxes the last time I was there. Do you?

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