On Tuesday 12 September 2006 14:07, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 septembre 2006 à 07:23 -0600, Joseph Smidt a écrit : > > At the risk of repeating myself, Desktop Users: For most non-server > > minded people who still want a stable OS, Debian takes too long to > > release. On top of that,many of them want a "As easy aw Windows" > > distro. I don't know that Debian will provide that as well as Ubuntu, > > unless we want to alter many aspects of the project, like how often we > > release. > > Oh well. I wonder how Microsoft could manage to provide "as easy as > Windows" OSes given the length of their release cycle. The answer is they don't. Techworld ran a story almost a month ago now: Microsoft is leaving the OS business after Vista is released to focus on services, virtualization and other products. You can already start to see the change being made: Windows Live OneCare is replacing Windows on WalMart shelves, for example. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): baloo@ursine.ca
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