On 11-Sep-07, at 4:21 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
BTW, most M$ users who use non-licensed copies, are using software copies that are quite some years old, they have no access to updates, yet they hardly find any problems or bugs in their software and are happily using them.
I'm neither defending Microsoft and nor am I criticising Linux. Rony, Linux isn't really ready for the mission critical desktop applications. I know exactly what you mean when you say the above statements.
you are defending micorsoft and criticising linux. Anyway the whole discussion is moot as desktops are obsolete - yes, they will be there for sometime to come, but the main development is the web, and that is where the talent is going. And, as you can see, foss based companies have already far outstripped micorsoft.
OOo can't be a replacement to M$ Office, just yet. It has a long way to go before it matures into a real competitor.
both are already oboselete - it is just that neither knows it yet