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Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry?
ruphus13 writes "Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, claims that the company is very close to the $30M mark, at which point, they will be a self-sustaining company. While people feel that this should not worry Microsoft, the real question is whether a 10,000 person effort on a failure like Vista can actually be the paradigm of a long-term strategy. From the article: 'Microsoft had 10,000 people [the article is unclear whether these were all developers, or administrative and support staff were factored in] working on Vista for a five year period ... huge profits in any given year can mean relatively little five years on. Canonical's self-sustaining revenue may not be threatening — but it leaves one wondering how sustainable Microsoft's development process really is.'"
Why is the terminal a bad thing?
What I think is WAAAY more confusing and non-intuitive is the Microsoft interface.
All the random and hidden places you have to look for even basic system-related stuff. It should be front and centre instead of hidden under a massive hierarchy of menu options and "advanced" tabs. All windows wants to do is keep shoving media players, photo viewers and useless workflow models in your face.
Also they way Microsoft decided to dispense with accurate/detailed technical terminology and information and replace it with "you're too dumb to understand this" marketing terminology. How useful is an error pop-up that just says "A system error has occurred" ? Even for non-techy types wouldn't it be more useful to know some detail like what failed and why?
Give me Linux and a terminal any day.
I would hope that you would use Impress over Powerpoint when trying to drive people away from Microsoft. Else you really suck at your job.
Sic Semper MicroSoft