Interesting article about "What Linux is doing wrong on the desktop"

[Scott]

On 04/27/2006 05:15 PM, * Senectus . spake thusly:
> 
> OEMs, especially smaller system builders, will occasionally install
> Linux if a customer demands it, Enderle said. But OEMs fundamentally
> dislike Linux because it doesn't sport a track record of encouraging
> users to upgrade their PCs in reliable three-year cycles the way
> Windows does, Enderle said.

Ha! I ran a PC with Windows on it for 6 years before I bought a new one
(also with Windows).

The "reliable 3-year cycles" are mostly thing of the past if you ask me.

Processors have advanced to a point they have more power than most
people need and you almost never see a new PC these days with less than
512 MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive.

Then there are people like me who always buy for the future so that my
overkill PC will be "average" 3 years from now.


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