Is Microsoft losing some serious ground to Apple???

[Nickelbackro]

Comrade Tovya said:

Nickelbackro said:

Yes I agree Comrade, Apple needs to open up their OS onto the clone market, they can be more restrictive on their Clone makers (ie certain hardware use only) but they need some more freedom in Mac land to ever breach 10%.

Also I read here http://www.osnews.com/story/20640/Apple_Loses_Some_Shine_as_Mac_Sales_Slow that due to slower economic times the higher priced macs are slowing in sales.

My hope is for linux quite frankly, it's getting much easier to configure than even 1 year ago, and is to the point that lots of people (maybe 10% of the computer market) are smart enough to configure a dual-boot setup.

Yeah, I would like to see Linux take off as well...

The only thing holding it back to this point is that it is too hard for the average user to configure and use, and of course, the lack of software titles that are compatible with it.  I run a dual OS boot myself, with Redhat being my 2nd boot.

Certain games won't run yes (in fact 99% of games) however there still are great linux games like Openarena and Warzone 2100.

However, the only thing in linux that doesn't meet my needs in a cross platform video conferencing software (and since my upgrade to Mandriva 2009.0 in skype there have been compatiblity problems with video and audio, and every other alt. i've looked at make my friends install weird GTK and KDE runtime libraries) But the bigger distros Ubuntu, Mint, Mandriva, ect have a vast library of free software, openoffice, firefox, amarok, and a large numeber of very useful applications that can often do more than their windows counterparts.