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To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (10228)	8/23/1998 1:31:00 AM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Hey, even I don't believe Linux is going to replace Windows 95/98 anytime soon on the desktop. We're in a Windows world for the desktop for at least 5 years, maybe more. Unless Linux proponents pay for the retraining of tens of millions of workers, or figure out how to run Microsoft Word and Excel on Linux, people will continue to buy Windows computers for much of their work. Whether or not Microsoft makes gains into other markets, like the server, enterprise, handheld, pure internet surfing, or embedded markets on the other hand, is the real story. Linux has a real chance to blunt Microsoft in some of these markets. But the knowledge worker on the desktop? Performance and reliability isn't the issue-- running Microsoft office applications is the issue.

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