sounds to me like bill is just in it for the money...and screw the consumer.....thats nice, but im clinging to my xp like a life raft!!
What a load of B.S. kitty.
If Bill was really smart...he'd embrace an ever increasing PC market
and create an O/S that will do it all...without the DRM...the
restrictions...and all that good stuff. Open source, though highly
unlikely, seems a good way to go.
"Bill" is in it for the stockholders. The stockholders are in it for the money. That's the whole point. There is no money in OSS unless your business model is support. For MS (not Bill) to make money they need to have consumers give them money.
Microsoft probably spent more money designing Vista than we will ever
make. They do know the business and they will make money and we'll get
a good product.
Linux is not a user friendly OS. Linux has ALOT of work to be done before it can be considered a user friendly OS. It goes right down to installing applications. There is no EXE you just click on or dragging the Icon into Applications(OS X) and that will really screw the majority of users up big time.
I disagree. Installing apps in Ubuntu (my distro of choice these days) is very easy. And depending on what you are using your PC for, your linux disto will work fine. (Most people I know browse the web, chat, and use a spreadsheet or word processor.)
I always recommend OSs to friends that ask that do what they want for the least amount of money. You want tech support, games, price, cuting-edge technology, etc., make a matrix and pick the best fit. It's an OS, not a religion.
