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Comments: 3 +-   Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs-> on Sunday December 09 2007, @01:03PM

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An anonymous reader writes "Desktop Linux has a recent commentary on the inevitable growth of Linux on the cheaper end of the desktop market. According to the article, the availability of under-$500 usable hardware, combined with free a operating system, free desktop office products, and free or cheap "Software as a service" online applications, opens a new market in which Microsoft cannot compete. "Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice of the desktop market pie.""
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  • OK, if true the Linux community has a lot of work to make it "general consumer" friendly. Windows at this time generally "works" and if people switching to Linux actually finds it more problematic to use you'll actually find them "downgrading" their computers back to XP in droves. I grew up with Microsoft and Apple so I've never had to pick up a book or manual to use their OS's. Even though their software had and has flaws, I've always could find what I was looking for by just poking around. With Linux b
  • By now it is rather clear this is happening. It has been happening for a while already in embedded devices. Add to that the MS cannot compete because of bith, lack of vision and technological incompetence, and it is clear what will happen. And it is a good thing too, since heterogenuous environments and markets without monopolies further open standards and more reliable systems. Still, has been obvious for quite some while.
  • The year of the linux desktop is next year. Always has been
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