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

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (62866)	11/12/2001 10:12:20 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Much of that could also be said about Windows, IMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (62866)	11/12/2001 5:36:06 PM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 74651

No, Linux is very free in the "freedom of speech" sense, no matter how much you value your time. But, of course, Linux is not free as in "free beer". The Linux community has specialized enormously. The skills required to select pieces and to assemble them into a working system is done by people at Red Hat, SuSE etc. If you compare it with Windows, the Linux solutions are typically much better. On Windows, you typically first install Windows itself, then MS Office, then WinZIP and tools like that, then maybe a backup program, MS Publisher etc. On Linux, you just do one install, and that's sufficient for most people. You don't install extra software, unless you are amongst the most advanced users. And this is exactly where the future is: Software bundled with the OS. Microsoft just cannot participate in this market, because they refuse to separate the Windows core OS from the rest of the company, and therefore cannot bundle Windows with e.g. MS Office. But I believe that IBM may bundle StarOffice in an OEM version of Windows. Lars.