On MovieTome: MovieTome: Holiday Movie Guide
BNET Business Network:
BNET
TechRepublic
ZDNet
TalkBack 18 of 23:
Next »
« Previous
You are wrong
Lindows is a Threat to Microsoft. Not in a sense that Lindows will cause them to go out of business but a threat in the sense that it competes on the desktop. With the market share Microsoft has there is only one place way they can go and that is to lose market share.

Having 99% of the desktop X86 PC market give Microsoft a control over what direction that market takes. It would be much harder to make everyone accept at Microsoft standard if they don't have full control over the X86 PC market. Even losing 10% to Lindows breaks this control.

Now in all honesty I can say I don't know a single person who uses Lindows. I know people using Lycoris, SUSE, Mandrake and Red Hat but I know no one that uses Lindows.

Still if an Dial-up ISP has software for Lindows then chance are it will work with the other distros of Linux.

Also, someone must be using Lindows. From what I've heard they are selling from Walmart and obviously a demand is there. Companies don't waste money for nothing. If that wasn't the case then my digital camera would have come with both Windows and Linux software but it doesn't.
Posted by: voska   Posted on: 12/12/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
Reply to Story Reply to Message

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

Oh please!!  fastech@... | 12/11/03
Really?  Michael Kelly | 12/11/03
I've never heard of it  voska | 12/11/03
Even worse  Arrg | 12/11/03
AOL Client  Eggs Ackley_z | 12/11/03
Not sure why AOL doesn't support Lindows.  DonnieBoy | 12/12/03
Who's using Dial Up now a days anyways  voska | 12/11/03
Me, for one...  John Le'Brecage | 12/11/03
My DSL account comes with Dial Up  voska | 12/11/03
me two  vandamme | 12/12/03
Furthermore  vandamme | 12/12/03
If Could do that I would  voska | 12/12/03
$5 dialup  vandamme | 12/12/03
Great. Both of the people who use Lindows can use the service!  marksashton | 12/11/03
Microsoft are terrified of Lindows  jellyclock | 12/12/03
The only threat Lindows presents to MS is...  marksashton | 12/12/03
Lindows works great, and it is not an MS copy, you like virus problems??  DonnieBoy | 12/12/03
You are wrong  voska | 12/12/03
MSN and VHS tapes forever  prrawlins | 01/11/04
Some links  jellyclock | 12/12/03
who uses Lindows, anyway?  Lunpa | 12/12/03
What is your problem, dude?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 12/12/03
Joke?  prrawlins | 01/11/04

What do you think?

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads