Joe,
Well the interesting thing about that article wasn't so much the article, but the quotes that read something like "I don't see Windows CE surviving" and the fact that it was CBS.
Re: Frontpage Linux..
Linux is a good operating system, provided you are a person like myself who can understand and use it. What people seem to have a hard time understanding is that Linux, despite it's stability is unusable for 99% of the computing population. In the last 5 months I have been asked to help with over 20 "home" linux installations.. this is wrong and the reason why Linux will never be popular enough.. Linux is about as useable for your average user as DOS 2.0 was.. (that is not very usable). The need to get an installation that run somethingly, a control panel that works.. plug and play support that works, solid drivers, productivity software that works, etc. etc. etc.. sure it's a good OS.. but that's all it is.. JUST an OS.. Windows has become more than that and that's one of the big reasons Windows is unstable (the majority of Windows crashes are caused by some obscure driver somewhere that the OS loaded to get weird device X to work)..
NT 5.0 addresses a lot of things that Linux has in it's favour now (networking changes without reboot, FS changes on the fly, disk quotas, mount points, links, etc.) while keeping it all user friendly. In all honesty 85% of Microsoft's OS work goes into the UI and 15% goes into the core.. Linux is the other way around and it shows in market share.
re: PP & 99.. I agree.. it's starting to look more and more like the PP is turning into the darling cottage industry of computing for the next decade.. this is a good thing for COMS IMHO.. it's also good for MS, as it will give MS more competition (I have nothing against competition)..
You know, while I am pro MS, I don't hold any shares.. don't ask me why.. I just don't.
Steve
PS. I'm feeling much better, except I think I pinched a nerve in my neck.. any suggestions?
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