Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

On Wednesday 31 Dec 2008 1:13:14 pm Sachin Gopalakrishnan wrote:

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Not so newbie thinks

1. M$ popularised the desktop

2. is good at marketing

1.i don't think i really fancy myself as an authority of computing history so i respectfully forfeit .. 2. Good at marketing..actually great at marketing....nothing to show otherwise :/. The brand MS is way higher than brand linux which is only recently been seen as something of a "not so geeky" alternative!! ...

dont forget M$ had a huge headstart of about 15 years in the PC market. And 15 years, plus another 4-5 years for the linux desktop to get really usable, means 20 years in a field where a headstart of a few months is viewed as unbridgeable.