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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dybdahl who wrote (62833)	11/11/2001 2:41:27 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 74651

Re: Switching Actually I doubt that. Ignoring the obvious that mass switching isn't going to just happen, Linux is a much more fragmented environment than Windows. If "everyone switched to Linux" which Linux would they be switching to? Would they switch to KDE or to Gnome, or to something else that's brewing in some University department that we won't hear about for another month? Which distribution? One really can't argue that "it doesn't matter" because clearly it does matter or there wouldn't be so many "standard" distributions in the first place. The "threat" that Windows XP represents is that for the first time it really does unify the Windows product family to a degree that simply hasn't existed before and that nobody else matches.