Curtains for Windows?

[desdemona]

Could Red Hat mean curtains for Windows?

After five years in development, the time is right for the company's Linux desktop software to take on Microsoft, its boss tells Stephen Pritchard

09 May 2004

If Matthew Szulik is to be believed, the first thing we will see when we start up our computers in the morning will no longer be Micro- soft's familiar green, red, blue and yellow logo. Instead it will be a battered red fedora.

read full article here:

http://news.independent.co.uk/business/ana...sp?story=519375

[Bombardier]

Executives at Microsoft have described Linux as the greatest threat to their company, and it has quickly gained market share from Microsoft's Windows in the server market. But the desktop market - where Microsoft provides the operating system for more than 90 per cent of computers - could be an even greater battleground.

I would love to see Red Hat gain ground in the desktop market. Red Hat was one of the first and continues to be one of the very best linux distributions.

I fully support Red Hat's possible quest to dethrone Microsoft in the desktop environment.

That was a good article.

[Redneck4sure]

I agree with Bombardier!

[Ken]

I'd love to see it, but I don't think it's going to happen.

Who knows what the future holds, but as for RedHat or Linux in general, to specifically "dethrone" Microsoft when most novice (and completely clueless) computer users couldn't handle it, I wouldn't count on it.

First of all, Microsoft has almost everyone in their back pocket. They have to the Windows OS preloaded. Regular people are just used to Windows, it's a household name. And people like this don't do well with change, especially if it involves learning. Hell, a lot of people just don't have time.

I speak from theory, and personal experience/observation.

[NullsRevenge]

I hear this every year seems like a annual occurance that linux is going to take over "soon."

Im doubtful because of i dont think alot of the attitudes in the linux community really want windows users, and i dont think that linux has the software support that will actually get people to switch.

I expect to know both so the politics, fanboying, fud, and etc doesnt affect me much.

[rainbowdemon]

fud?

[Bombardier]

fud?

fud = fear, uncertainty, and doubt