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On 28/12/10 09:51, Barry Drake wrote:
> As folk move gradually away from legacy
> software there will reach a point at which the bubble bursts and the
> Linux just below the surface gets out!  Freedom !!!!
>
> This is happening in a lot of places.  I know a number of people who are
> using OpenOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox through choice.  How easy
> would their switch to Ubuntu be?

Hi Barry
A blank PC is generally so *easy* to install. However, I am usually 
asked to install Ubuntu dual boot onto an existing machine. Even if it 
is unlikely to be used in future with its Windows, the owner is still 
quite likely to want to retain the Windows (just in case)(in case the 
world ends). That simple decision to retain Windows has enormous extra 
time implications.

Backups need more discipline than they ever saw in the machine 
previously. Partitions need managing. Some current retail machines 
already have four primary partitions. Vista and Windows 7 both have 
significant issues around resizing partitions. In some Dell and HP 
machines, the proprietary recovery software corrupts the (Grub2) new 
boot loader. Some issues may be a coincidence, some, not all, perhaps? 
After all, it is about the business of continuing to make money? (note)

Note:
see
http://groklaw.net/
'Microsoft, Standards, and Incompatibility: 1991-2010 -- And a Novell 
Smoking Gun - Updated 2Xs'.      Monday, December 20 2010 @ 05:16 PM EST
(extract)
'It's a Microsoft memo from 1991, regarding a suggested attack plan to 
beat out IBM's OS/2, written by Joseph Krawczak, currently group 
program manager for Outlook at Microsoft. Here are just three damning 
sentences from the confidential memo:
============
Pursue a product development strategy that prevents IBM from claiming 
Windows compatibility.
Prevent Windows applications from running correctly on OS/2....
Reposition OS/2 as impractical and incompatible in the minds of customers.
============
--
alan cocks
Ubuntu user