On Thursday 18 May 2006 17:47, Rony wrote: *snip* > If linux gives better security and stability they are > willing to change their OS, subject to all their regular work being > executed in linux too with full migration of data. This is something > not possible as of now. some examples are:- > > 1) Banking websites insist on using IE. > 2) BOLT and other share trading softwares are available for M$ only. > 3) Tally does not have a replacement in linux and its data cannot be > ported to any other equivalent linux based software that works just > like it. > 4) People are used to Corel Draw, Photoshop,.Net, Autocad etc. > 5) Accounting and invoice packages available in the trader market are > M$ based. > 6) Ticketing softwares for travel agents are windows based. > 7) Most file sharing softwares for songs are M$ based and many live > song sites run only on IE. > 8) Some third party documentation softwares use MS Office as the > export destination and anyway they are for the windows platform. > 9) Most of the popular games are M$ based.
kudos rony! You hit the nail on the head :) But you need to agree that KDE and GNOME still have a long way before they can become as userfriendly as Windows UI. -- Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
