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.

[Peter Köhlmann]

begin Scott M. wrote:

The figures are a little hard to come by, especially with dual-boots.

Actually, they are not. Read my other post on where the numbers come
from.

Oh, what reliable sources. Why not quote Steve Blammer or His Billness
directly?

I've seen 80%; I've seen 95%+. In my household it's 33%
(1 server system, 1 pure Linux game system, 1 dual-boot system
which might become SMP if anyone still has an 866 MHz PIII (not likely!),
and 1 dead dual-boot system which I may have to resurrect to
get my DOOM, Heretic, and Hexen off the Win95 disk there).

You do realize that you and others who have dual boots make up less that
.1 percent (that's < 1/10%) when we are talking about world-wide numbers,
right?

Well, there are lies, damned lies and statistics.
And then there are claims from windows users

< snip >
--
Windows was created to keep stupid people away from UNIX."
**--*Tom*Christians en

[Scott M.]

Peter, I've seen many replies from you and every one of them has nothing
written in it. They all have attachments on them, but since most of us
don't open foreign attachments, we don't have the slightest clue as to what
you are saying.

Please learn how to post replies without using attachments.

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[C# Learner]

"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote:

Peter, I've seen many replies from you and every one of them has nothing
written in it. They all have attachments on them, but since most of us
don't open foreign attachments, we don't have the slightest clue as to what
you are saying.

Please learn how to post replies without using attachments.

It's a problem with your newsreader (Outlook Express):
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265230

[Scott M.]

No it's not. The article you sent does not describe Peter's posts.

"C# Learner" <cs****@learner .here> wrote in message
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"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote:

Peter, I've seen many replies from you and every one of them has nothing
written in it. They all have attachments on them, but since most of us
don't open foreign attachments, we don't have the slightest clue as to
what
you are saying.

Please learn how to post replies without using attachments.

It's a problem with your newsreader (Outlook Express):
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265230

[C# Learner]

"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote:

No it's not. The article you sent does not describe Peter's posts.

Peter's post contained a line which started with "begin" followed by two
spaces, causing the abnormality on your end.

[Scott M.]

Do ALL of Peter's posts START with "begin "? This is what the article says
causes the problem. It also says that the attachment will have no data.
Peter's attachments have been 348 bytes and 746 bytes in size.

It doesn't sound like what MS says the cause and symptoms are, are what
Peter's posts have been.
"C# Learner" <cs****@learner .here> wrote in message
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"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote:

No it's not. The article you sent does not describe Peter's posts.

Peter's post contained a line which started with "begin" followed by two
spaces, causing the abnormality on your end.

[C# Learner]

"Scott M." <s-***@nospam.nosp am> wrote:

Do ALL of Peter's posts START with "begin "?

Yes. It's used in order to cause inconvenience to OE users. (I know this
from reading the group to which he often posts.)

I'll send a reply to this that starts with that particular text and you'll
see what I mean.

[C# Learner]

begin this is a test of the OE begin bug.

[Dean Tran]

John Bailo <ja*****@earthl ink.net> wrote in message news:<sr******* **********@news read3.news.pas. earthlink.net>. ..

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.

The key for Linux to be a OS of choice is to make the kernel much
smaller and the user interface robust and be able to run MS games to
attract younger people while retaining some UNIX advantages (security,
agility and power.) Using current Linux environment at home is like
driving a Hummer when a small Geo would do for the same task for most
PC users. Many Linuxers are intimidated by its complexity while they
scratch a samll portion of Linux capacity.

I believe Linux distribution should be available at a fraction of MS
windows cost but not free. One common denominator between Linux
environment and Microsoft, Inc. is that they are too powerful for
their own good. Commercial Linux distribution, IMHO, should offer
popular programs that work well for most PC users needs and are
compatible with MS programs while Linux distribution source code is in
public domain. I also believe MS dominance is not good for consumers
and competition, thus, i belong to a minority group who prefers AMD
processors and WordPerfect to Pentium and MS Word.

[Scott M.]

Ok, thanks for the info. If Peter knows about this and is doing it on
purpose, it's not really an inconvenience to me, it is an indication of what
type of person he is.

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