[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

[John Botscharow]

I have been following the discussions of this bug with some amusement
for the last couple of months. I amnot a developer, just a semi-literate
computer user who has no interest in coding,only in the best possible
functionality from my computers. I tend to leave the coding to those
with the talent and interest in that area

I have four computers in my house, of which only one iuses Ubuntu as its
operating system. The rest, including my new computer, use Vista, noy
because I prefer Vista to Ubuntu, but because some of the most important
programs we use take a great deal of coding skill to get them to work in
Ubuntu, especially the RPG games like World of Warcraft and Neverwinter
Nights.

As I said Iam not a coding expert, but I do have a fairamount of
marketing expertise, having been in sales and marketing for most of my
adult life [I am 60]. Bg #1 will not be fixed until the Ubuntu community
makes a major marketing shift away from focusing on the technically-
oriented population to focusing on converting the semi-literate computer
users that comprise the vast majority of Windows users.

The attraction of Windows - which is the weakness of Ubuntu -is that it
requires little effort on the part of the user to configure it to rum
whatever programs the semi-literate computer user wants. Until the
developers who work on Ubuntu are willing to design Ubuntu to do that,
Microsoft will always have the lion's share of the market.

To be honest though,I see little interest or commitment on the part of
the Ubuntu community to do that So, this bug should probably be closed
beause a guf is something that cab and will be fixed. I don't see a fix
for this bug as ever happening.

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Microsoft has a majority market share
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