Recent announcements of Windows 7 chook the entire world and microsoft didn’t even say anything, people are. One of the articles that I came across was about the use of Windows 7 on netbooks and I started thinking.
Apple is releasing Mac OSX 10.6 in a while which will make Mac OSX even more stable and probably the fastest OS on the earth.
It’s kind of an Xbox-effect, Mac OSX 10.6 will be released before Windows 7, so it should have an advantage, but…
Windows 7 is already so popular that it has approximately 1,5% of global marketshare which means that Apple will have to come up with something good to get Windows 7 out of the people’s heads.
Did you notice how I didn’t mention Linux? Well what’s there to mention, Ubuntu, the most popular distro has released its latest version a while ago and it wasn’t very special, I hope Ubuntu 9.04 will be more innovative. And for a non commercial OS it has to be. The last chance for Linux, as OS on netbooks is also endangered. Windows 7 will run on netbooks as well, it will even have a direct-on button for simple tasks and will have a lot higher performance. What do you think people would use? Linux or their favorite windows? Well here in Belgium it’s clear, 3/4 of all Linux netbooks are returned to the store after people find out that there is Linux on there instead of Windows, they now even prefer a 6 year old Windows OS above a brand new Linux distro. Says enough doesn’t it? I don’t think Linux stands much of chance, people will eventually choose Windows above linux, because they are used to it.
My conclusion is that there will be a war next year between the 2 biggest OS’s Mac OSX Snowy Leopard and Windows 7. Linux will have to watch how the two endanger its marketshare. Of course this will not be the end of Linux since it is community driven, but you’d better prepare for a Linux with 0,3% marketshare instead of 0,85%. Unless Ubuntu 9.04 is there to save the day with a superfast booting OS.
So the big cat and lucky seven are fighting but the penguin is not invited. And apparently I’m not the only one who thinks that way. Tons of blog posts were released of Windows 7 pulverizing Linux. That’s obviously a different attitude than the one at Vista’s release but at the moment you can’t really tell it will go either way or another, so it might turn out a completely other way.
This is just what I think will happen.
Linux is dead (or isn't it?)
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When did Linux played a significant role in the battle for the desktop market share?
It is years that I hear someone saying “this is the year of Linux”, but in fact there are only more or less 1% of PC with that operating system.
actually O,85% of the people use one of the many Linux distributions so yeah, less than one indeed.