LindowsOS Will Bundle AOL Client

ealar dlanvuli writes "BuisnessWeek Online is reporting that AOL/TW and Lindows have decided to work together in bundling a version of Netscape 7 with future Lindows products. One wonders if they should instead be supporting OEone and making it scream."

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LindowsOS is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

It is official; Netcraft now confirms: LindowsOS is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered LindowsOS community when IDC confirmed that LindowsOS market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that LindowsOS has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. LindowsOS is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict LindowsOS's future. The hand writing is on the wall: LindowsOS faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for LindowsOS because LindowsOS is dying. Things are looking very bad for LindowsOS. As many of us are already aware, LindowsOS continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

LindowsOS is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time LindowsOS developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: LindowsOS is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenLindowsOS leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenLindowsOS. How many users of NetLindowsOS are there? Let's see. The number of OpenLindowsOS versus NetLindowsOS posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetLindowsOS users. LindowsOS/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetLindowsOS posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of LindowsOS/OS. A recent article put FreeLindowsOS at about 80 percent of the LindowsOS market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeLindowsOS users. This is consistent with the number of FreeLindowsOS Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeLindowsOS went out of business and was taken over by LindowsOSI who sell another troubled OS. Now LindowsOSI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that LindowsOS has steadily declined in market share. LindowsOS is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If LindowsOS is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. LindowsOS continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, LindowsOS is dead.

Fact: LindowsOS is dying

Stop Press: AOL Claims Netscape 7 Use Icons

[Jugalator]

Look:

With its AOL licensing deal, the Lindows said that consumers can enjoy the versatility of Netscape browser and communications capabilities right out-of-the-box with an icon-driven interface.

Whoa - icons! Let me get this straight... Are they saying they'll use those new, often abstract, graphic representations of commands you give to the computer? This, my friends, seem to be a browser for the 21st century. Let's all embrace Netscape 7 in all its glory.

new AOL commercials on CNN

[theflea]

Will the AOL commercials on CNN change significantly? Old commercial: grandma type says "it's like having a verbal chat [twiddles fingers]...electronically!" New commercial: father type says something like: "AOL uses ipchains/procmail filter/ext2 file system/gecko rendering engine....and that's important to me"