<br> <div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:09:17 +0000<br>From: paul mellors <<a href="mailto:paul@paulmellors.net"> paul@paulmellors.net</a>><br>Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage<br>To: British Ubuntu Talk <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:45BFA5ED.5080707@paulmellors.net"> 45BFA5ED.5080707@paulmellors.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed<br><br>John McCourt wrote:<br>> No offense, but Linux is not gonna have any chance at<br>> competing with the marketing drive of Microsoft over <br>> the next few months.<br>Linux will never compete with the marketing drive of Microsoft. And<br>windows users will never swap until it's just as easy to use and easy to<br>setup and it has the same support the same driver support the same games <br>applications, oh you know what i mean i needn't go on....</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I disagree, I think it would be more realistic to say "windows users will never swap until you can walk into a shop and buy a Linux PC that's already been set up for you", I think that by far most of the Windows PCs are bought 'as is' and most users never go near an O/S installation or pugrade. <br> </div></div>