Pretty sure Microsoft isn't a plunky underdog...they do hold the market share in software...besides, everyone knows that they don't compete, they just buy all their rivals.
This is why I prefer my 2000 Jeep TJ with zip up windows, manual fold-down top, manual adjusting mirrors, and where the most technologically advanced item is the RFID chip in the key and ignition. That way the government can't shut down my car with a few strokes on the keyboard, and that would be hacker-serial killer won't be able to control my car:P.
I, for one, like Linux being the alternative OS and only occupying a small share of the market. If it grows to take Microsoft's spot then it will become just that, another Microsoft Windows. People will eventually figure out ways to write effective viruses and more efficient ways of hacking into Linux machines. Companies like Novell and Redhat will abuse their standing.
So I'd rather the Linux community remain on the smaller side.
Just my two cents.
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Pretty sure Microsoft isn't a plunky underdog...they do hold the market share in software...besides, everyone knows that they don't compete, they just buy all their rivals.
This is why I prefer my 2000 Jeep TJ with zip up windows, manual fold-down top, manual adjusting mirrors, and where the most technologically advanced item is the RFID chip in the key and ignition. That way the government can't shut down my car with a few strokes on the keyboard, and that would be hacker-serial killer won't be able to control my car :P.
What happens when your offline backup company goes under?
Further more, what happens if that backup company's hard disk array (that contained your backup) fails at/around the same your hard disk fails?
"By the way, who constituted what they refer to as 'people?'" those little monkeys that NASA used to test space equipment
yes I'm aware of that but what did those typists need to 'escape' from? And deletion was not quite there either...
I wasn't aware there were keyboards in the 19th century...
I, for one, like Linux being the alternative OS and only occupying a small share of the market. If it grows to take Microsoft's spot then it will become just that, another Microsoft Windows. People will eventually figure out ways to write effective viruses and more efficient ways of hacking into Linux machines. Companies like Novell and Redhat will abuse their standing. So I'd rather the Linux community remain on the smaller side. Just my two cents.
Or Linux will be ready for the desktop :-)
We can all hope..but it'd be odd not having Microsoft around as an example of what not to do in terms of programming...