Microsoft Segments Linux "Personas"

RJ2770 writes "Microsoft has started a project for their partners to help identify the personas of different Linux users in an attempt to sway them toward Microsoft products. In addition to the web site there is a podcast on the market research behind the project, again directed at Microsoft's selling partners."

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different types of linux users?

[CrAlt]

different types or linux users? Like star-wars vs star trek geeks? Arnt we all just nerds?

Re:No kidding you too?

[linuxrocks123]

> Anyway it crashed opera wich is something that hasn't happened in a LONG time. Good job MS. Even on Linux/Opera you can still give me a IE experience.

This is offtopic and should be modded as such, but I can't resist:

I'm running the latest version of Opera (with User Agent Opera/9.10 (X11; Linux sparc64; U; en) ) on a Linux-running Ultra 10. The processor is a 440MHz UltraSPARC IIi.

Opera is awesome on this machine, I love it, it makes my Ultra 10 as fast for web browsing as my x86 laptop, and all of that, BUT...

IT CRASHES LIKE WINDOWS ME ON AN EMACHINES WITH BUGGY RAM!!!

To be more specific, I have at least one crash per day, usually in the form of a hang. I have to kill it and restart it to get it running again, and that is VERY annoying.

Have you ever had this experience? Is it a SPARC-specific bug? Should I report it? It's not that huge a deal but I'd really like to not have this happen, and since you touted the stability of Opera in your comment I'm thinking I should file a bug report with Opera or something.

Any responses are appreciated.