notbob wrote:

> On 2009-01-28, sf > wrote:
>
> > So when do you think it will be the dell standard OS - or are they
> > will go all the way with Linux?
>
> No. Linux will not displace Microsoft at Dell or in the US,
> although, for the first time, M$'s market share has dropped below
> 90%. OMG! Most of that is Apple. Most of Linux's incursion is the
> rest of the World and servers.

There was an essay by author Neal Stephenson about the OS situation
around ten years ago, called "In the Beginning was the Command Line".

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Stephenson/In_the_Beginning>

It has some interesting insights. One of the ones discussed, BeOS, is
pretty much out of the picture these days.



Brian

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