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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

 

Windows 7 netbook (starter edition) users have started looking to linux distros because W7 Starter well... It seems a lot like Vista and you can't do anything. Microsoft seems to be trying to be trying to kill the netbook area that they have W7 on. Looks like the reputation is going down for Windows 7 and since XP makes the netbooks go slow, we should focus on keeping the netbook edition lightweight and easy to use.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 and this is by far, more stable and secure than Windows. Even Alpha 2 was more stable than Windows.

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Microsoft has a majority market share
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Bug description:
Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.







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