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How Microsoft Beat Linux In China
kripkenstein notes an analysis up on TechRepublic detailing how Microsoft beat Linux in China, and the consequences of that victory: "With the soon-to-be largest economy standardized on Windows desktops, desktop Linux does seem to have an uphill battle ahead of it." "Linux has turned out to be little more than a key bargaining chip in a high stakes game of commerce between the Chinese government and the world's largest software maker... The fact that... Linux failed to gain a major foothold in China is yet another blow to desktop Linux. After nearly eight years of being on the verge of a breakthrough, Linux seems more destined than ever to be a force in the server room but little more than a narrow niche and an anomaly on the desktop."
not "we" as in linux or open source, "we" as in internet users. Looks like China will soon be the largest economy and the largest source of zombie spam pcs.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
It matters because nothing Microsoft does benefits anyone but them in the long run. You've got to have noticed this by now.
Yeah, what good has MS ever done, other than making personal computing accessible to the general public, right? Bastards.
I don't respond to AC's.
As a graybeard I remember those horrible days where we got our OS from our hardware vendor, along with the "opportunity" to buy their crappy, proprietary, $10,000/seat applications.
As a graybeard, I can say categorically that you're full of shit.
Microsoft has killed a competitive software market and taken us back to the IBM monopoly days.