Of Percentages
April 11, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under Links
The battle between Linux and Windows over the netbook market share has been the hot topic this week. So does Windows really have 96% share? Or is it less than that?
Linux & Windows
Ah yes. The wonderful world of online news. We get bombarded by all these information but at the end of the day what is the relevance of all these things to new users? That 96% thing of Microsoft might persuade new Linux users to go back to Windows, it might tell them “Hey, you! Go back and join the bandwagon.” But it’s probably not all true. For one thing, I too might look like one of the people who became part of the 96% who have bought Windows-powered netbooks.
In any case, as Linux users those figures will be there whether we make a switch back to Windows or something. And I have to agree that there are some things that users have to overcome to be protective. So whatever that operating system is, it might happen anyway. But developers and advocates of Linux have a long list to overcome. So do we. That’s why we need to keep trying anyway.
Windows will continue to beat Linux so long as users can’t get the same product experience they have been used to in Windows.
in reality, nobody cares if the software i’m using is FOSS, commercial, freeware, shareware, and whatever as long as it gets the job done. to raise a point, to date there are no Linux softwares that matches Y! Messenger experience of users in Windows. nevermind that pidgin and others are multiprotocol clients users don’t care.