AMD Cleaning Intel's Clocks 6726
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, billwg wrote on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 16:02:32 GMT ^^^
No, he's not.
Not that any of this is worth crap without at least some substantiating data, but he's got it covered. Apparently, he's saying zero cost, zero performance for Linux.
(This despite ample evidence otherwise, of course. But then, for him, it might very well be such; if he can't get Linux to boot that's darned close to zero performance for *him*. But whose fault is that, really? :-) )
In any event, Windows is "free", "easy to use", "secure", and ubiquitous.
I don't have any openings for him, do you? THAD PHETTEPLACE GLACI, Inc. P.O. Box 26354 Wauwatosa, WI 53226 ...................................... Phone: (414)405-6388...
- "Free": it's bundled with almost every PC sold. One has to be careful if one *doesn't* want it, but most vendors don't do a cost breakout. (Dell does break out the cost of Win2003 Server, but that's a different product on a different, server-based, hardware platform. Most people don't buy 1U rackmountables for home use. :-) )
- "Easy to use": just point and click. Now scripting to repeat that point and click is something else again, though there are macro recorders. Just don't move that window.
- "Secure": XP now has a firewall. It helps. And Windows is "focusing on security", of course, which explains in part the 7 or so unpatched IE security issues. (And how long have they been unpatched?)
- Ubiquitous: Over 80%, or maybe 90%, of the PC-desktop OS market. That's close enough for me. Maybe too close to a monopoly for me as well.
Yeah, Windows, the clear winner in marketingware.
DFS It is always easy to say thing, it is far more problematic to prove...
Pity.
-- It's still legal to go .sigless.