Linux To Take Over The Low-End PC Market?

An anonymous reader writes "Desktop Linux has a recent commentary on the inevitable growth of Linux on the cheaper end of the desktop market. According to the article, the availability of under-$500 usable hardware, combined with a free operating system, free desktop office products, and free or cheap 'software as a service' online applications, opens a new market in which Microsoft cannot compete. 'Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. Still, it won't be enough.'"

Comments

After burners are outlawed.

[Anonymous Coward]

People forget that generally speaking in the world the people who want Windows will pay for it and if they're your picturesque 3rd world Romanian villagers with a penchant for stealing that they'll have no moral qualms about finding a few lei on the back of a horse cart to buy a DVD to burn Vista on.

Re:Microsoft will not bleed ink

[Mister Whirly]

"A lot of new users get bitchslapped because they deserve it."

And that sums up, in one efficient sentence, why Linux will not be easily adopted by the masses anytime soon.