On 10/24/2010 2:57 PM, Glenn Hall wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:27:46 -0500, Steel wrote:


You do know that buying a computer from a business perspective is an
expenditure that can be written off.

Of course, but when a company is sturggling to produce product
upgrading their computer systems which may have been upgraded 3
years ago becomes less of a priority.

I have not seen one yet. And the companies are moving to newer versions.

I see companies going to Vista and Win 7 as I contract in them. Vista
and Win 7 were big jumps over XP under the hood and they are better
protected O/S(s) than XP.

I saw very little movement to Vista but Windows 7 planned upgrades
seem to be doing better.
Still it's much slower than in the past as people and companies
keep their hardware and software longer.

I think this is due to the hype of them not knowing the differences
between Vista and Win 7 to the prior open by default versions of the O/S(s0

People can't buy a new computer right now, a whole lot of them, and they
are not going to Linux. If they buy a new computer, they are still not
going to Linux. It's that simple. If they were going to Linux, they (the
masses) would have been using it long ago.

That's because Windows is force fed to them and they don't know
any differently.

Business is business. If Linux could do the same, which seems it's
trying to do but failing, it would be done using Linux.


Linux isn't for everyone but it can do most of what Windows can do
and it can do it with better security and less cost.


And it's not happening that people are going to Linux in mass.
Your bet hinges upon the world economy damn near collapsing, before
Linux is accepted by the masses. It's not going to happen.

The world economy almost collapsed last year.

Last year? No I don't think so. The melt-down happened well over a year ago.



It still may happen.
Whether it will result in people switching to Linux I don't know.
I doubt it though as being able to find food and shelter is going
to be the big problem.

I look at things being half full on the positive side.