Why Windows Lost The Battle for the Desktop

[John Bailo]

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.

Unix has always been, and will continue to be, the Server OS in the form
of Linux.

Microsoft struggled mightily to win that battle -- creating a poor man's
DBMS, a broken email server and various other /application/ servers to
try and crack the Internet and IS markets.

In the case where they didn't spend their own money to get companies to
install servers, they failed miserably, and the 1 Billion per quarter
Linux market is testament to that.

But, what M$ didn't want you to know, is that the only reason they
wanted to dominate the server, is to protect their desktop and office
applications market.

Seal up the server, and the desktop is safe; cede the server, and the
desktop will fall.

And so it is...falling into the hands of Linux.

[tab]

>Mainstream America. Mainstream OS: Linux.

Correction. The thing all these Companies you have named, have in
common, is a bunch of GEEKS working for them. Thus, the server market.
Not the Desktop Market. His is not mom and pop business, nor average
gaming joe, nor shopping sally, nor grandma sharing files.

And if you want a phone, hmmm, bad news., Microsoft is in that market
and sales are growning. You can get Windows on your cell phone.

But a phone talking to the web is very hard to TYPE into. Most people
may start, but soon give up. Takes to long.

[JEDIDIAH]

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.a dvocacy.]
On 2005-01-17, C-Services Holland b.v. <cs*@REMOVEcsh4 u.nl> wrote:

John Bailo wrote:

The war of the OSes was won a long time ago.
<SNIP>

Why is it that people falling over themselves to badmouth microsoft

Intense hatred is usually formed from close personal experience.
always use Windows themselves :P
from the header of your post:

"User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)"

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....as if the ability to run Cubase ever made or broke a platform.
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[Sean Hederman]

That's a bit unfair. IE is *much* more secure with SP2 than it was before
(admittedly off a pretty low base). That said, I still think it's insane
that the next release of IE will only come out with Longhorn. If anything
was an attack against integrating code with the OS, then IE should be.

"Hamilcar Barca" <ha******@tld.a lways.invalid> wrote in message
news:20******** ***********@new s.newsreader.co m...

In article <cs**********@c tb-nnrp2.saix.net> (Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:00:47
+0200), Sean Hederman wrote:

Fair enough comment. An awful lot of Microsofts security woes have come
from the open security on install.

True. Another problem is Microsoft's seeming inability to repair defects
at an obvious point where security needs to be excellent: Internet
Explorer.

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"We are very much on track for a 2007 delivery [of 'Longhorn']."
-- Bob Muglia. Director, Windows Servers. Microsoft Corporation.
3 January 2004

[Jeff_Relf]

Hi T.A.B.,
You made me laugh when you mentioned: << Grandma sharing files. >>

Who's your grandma BlackBeard ? Arrrgh !
Does she have a parrot, a wooden leg and a hook for a hand ?

Re: Mobile keyboards,

I'd rather just use my desktop at home,
a notebook in a coffee house might be nice,
but a cell phone sized device wouldn't cut it for me.