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Linux Desktop Market Share is up as Much as 61 Percent, Study Finds

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It's possible that the Linux desktop will never be anything more than a fad among geeky enthusiasts. If so, a growing swell of people appear to be much more faddish of late, as numbers from W3Counter.com appear to indicate.
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decapitator - 637 days 4 hours ago
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All the OS companies seems to be stealing from that big Microsoft pie this year as a result of Vista and their declining brand recognition.
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Scarfy - 637 days 4 hours ago
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Yeah. The forecast for Microsoft is not good at the moment. I've a feeling the computing landscape will be quite different in the next ten or fifteen years.

I may be wrong, but I don't think the average home user has much need for bulky and excessive OSes any more.

A lot of stuff can, and is, done via the internet these days. What do people use their computers for? Internet? Music? Photography? Some "office" related stuff?
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craymoogy - 637 days 4 hours ago
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linux can do those things, and yet it's free
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Pain - 637 days 1 hour ago
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1.3 - Dont Think Vista had Much to Do with it kinda..
Was only a mater of time till the "Dark Age Of Window's" to pass , Stevey did nail it, 1997-2007
for the world to live in shadows and Yay now we see the light and its Mac this Mac that and if u
not Mac you Linux.

i Welcome are new Over Lord's, Hail 'MacNux'!
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ElfShotTheFood - 636 days 22 hours ago
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Linux will never amount to anything significant.

Nor will Macs.
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Pain - 636 days 17 hours ago
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Linux will never amount to anything significant. - I wouldn't make that bet.

Nor will Macs. - Thats a Good One lol way funny last i checked Apple stock is $156 and still climbing

MS is $29

and oh yea this... http://www.cnet.com/8301-13...

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