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Here's why Microsoft has the perfect monopoly with Windows and home users – this will sound very cruel but it is true: Windows assumes the home user is dumb and makes everything easy for home users.  Here's a good example:
in Windows, you have a fully stealthing firewall enabled by default, but in Ubuntu you have to manually install a firewall AND manually edit a file (before.rules ) so that the firewall in Ubuntu passes the "Shields Up" test:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Things like parental controls are absent in Ubuntu and simple things are not included in the default install, such as "gnome-games".
Here's another frustrating issue: why doesn't Ubuntu alert the user that the "restricted extras" can be installed to use things like Flash Player, play mp3 files etc.?  I know Ubuntu can't legally include the restricted extras in the default installation, but why not TELL the user that they can install the restricted extras?

Another thing that home users are familiar with and Ubuntu doesn't seem
to care about: the user interface.  Ever since Windows 95 – i.e. from
about the time when people started using computers at home – Windows
users have the familiarity of the single task bar at the bottom of the
screen and it's been constant ever since.  In Ubuntu, you have the
cumbersome "Unity" interface which frustrates users – it really does!
If Ubuntu were to see how much easier "Lubuntu" is for newcomers from
Windows, instead of forcing users to learn the Unity interface, then
Ubuntu would become MUCH more successful.

I'm sorry if this message has sounded too critical, but it needs to be
said and I would love to see more and more people use Ubuntu instead of
Windows, but that won't happen until Ubuntu follows Microsoft's example
of making everything very easy and always using the single "task bar" at
the bottom of the screen like "Lubuntu" does.

Finally – this IS a killer for Ubuntu...
Users must upgrade the entire Ubuntu install just to: run newer programs, use newer hardware and still have their installed version of Ubuntu supported?  Upgrading Ubuntu can break things, such as power management, drivers for wireless or other hardware devices.  I have strongly suggested in the "Ubuntu Brainstorm" that there should be a "live" testing mode before upgrading, to see if the newer version of Ubuntu will work before the user upgrades Ubuntu AND I have urged the Ubuntu developers to make the installation "cleanly" install without affecting the /home directories.

This is where Microsoft wins again!  Look at Windows XP for example.  It
was released in 2001 and it is *still* supported by Microsoft until
April 2014: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173

Users don't have to upgrade Windows just to use a newer versions of most
programs, except for some newer games, which require Windows Vista or
Windows 7.

I really wish I could print this whole comment and discuss it with the
Ubuntu team and Mark Shuttleworth.  It would be BRILLIANT if more and
more people used Ubuntu instead of Windows, but that won't happen until
these problems are addressed.  To finish this comment, I must say the
security in Ubuntu is excellent and more user-friendly than Windows i.e.
in Ubuntu, you just need the right password, from the user who has
sufficient privileges.

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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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