Heads up for an excellent article which has an anaylitical view on the operating systems business models, and their current and possible future status. It is a long item, so grab a hot drink too.
A Fund Manager Tries To Figure Out Whether Microsoft's Business Will Collapse http://www.businessinsider.com/there-is-a-real-chance-microsofts-business-will-simply-collapse-2010-8 With the expanding laptop market, it is less easy to obtain a laptop with no OS installed. The advance of GNU/Linux towards the end user undermines the established business models. Give Ubuntu to your kids. Enjoy! -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
