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[justfred <frederic.durodie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In my opinion (and possibly it has been mentioned before but I did not
have the courage to read through all the posts) the main problem is the
office suite one. I've switched to Ubuntu 3-4 years ago but and I don't
think I will ever come back to Windows. However I still do need a
virtual machine running Windows because when in a world dominated by the
MS Office Suite documents you want to contribute efficiently
OpenOffice/LibreOffice  simply aren't up to the task (I'll be happy to
stand corrected though).

Otherwise, yes, Linux and more specifically Ubuntu is a great OS : at
home we switched to Ubuntu a few years ago and neither my son or
daughter or wife would like to switch back to Windows. Again, however,
as my son started his engineering studies and some of the tasks requires
the use of Autodesk Inventor, we had to make his laptop dual boot into
Windows 7.

I myself, as an engineer, cannot e.g. install a CATIA v5 viewer from
Dassault Systems in Linux (again I need to use the virtual machine).

So, IMHO, it is not the quality of the OS that is holding back the
penetration of the Linux OS in the market, but rather the lack of an
office suite that is compatible with, like it or not, the dominating
standard as well as other key software that is Windows only (AutoCAD,
CST MicroWave Studio, CATIA v5, ...) or just works better on Windows
(e.g. ANSYS).

I was told that as an outcome of the big look-and-feel law suites
between MS and Apple the outcome was that MS was forced to produce an up
to date MS office suite for Macs and that is probably Macs are still
around (IMHO). I guess that Apple returned the favor by providing an
iTunes that works on Windows (and their latest generation of iPods need
iTunes to load music).

my 2 cents ...

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Title:
  Microsoft has a majority market share

Status in Club Distro:
  Confirmed
Status in Computer Science Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in dylan.NET.Reflection:
  Invalid
Status in dylan.NET:
  Invalid
Status in EasyPeasy Overview:
  Invalid
Status in GenOS:
  In Progress
Status in GNOME Screensaver:
  Won't Fix
Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians:
  Invalid
Status in JAK LINUX:
  Invalid
Status in LibreOffice:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  New
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  In Progress
Status in The Linux OS Project:
  In Progress
Status in The Metacity Window Manager:
  In Progress
Status in NULL Project:
  Invalid
Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  In Progress
Status in Tabuntu:
  Invalid
Status in A simple player to online TV streaming:
  Invalid
Status in Tv-Player:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
  In Progress
Status in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in The Jaunty Jackalope:
  Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty:
  Invalid
Status in Arch Linux:
  New
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Debian:
  In Progress
Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS:
  Confirmed
Status in openSUSE:
  In Progress
Status in Tilix Linux:
  New

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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