[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by LostMind

a windows xp install, no matter how well secured and setup to begin with can easily be destroyed in months (sometimes weeks, in the case of my inquisitive father).


Of course, I am a bit biased... less then 1% of our webservers run windows (just one windows box on my network!)

Actually I am going to disagree on that again, I rebuild my grandparents computer once a year weather it needs it or not.. and believe me it is a mess when I do it. BUT when they were running 98/me they would screw it up in less than a month. so XP is very lockable and the only people that get virus's are the ones that want them and can't be bothered to protect themselves

anyways the hacker porn was a joke to get ya going hehe, but when I was installing networks (small ones for small companies) about 4 years ago now.. everyone wanted windows.. also at the same time the market evaluations were something like Microsoft 62% of the commercial server market but that I will admit could change day by day and surveys can easily be manipulated.

but I will restate that marketing and money was the big demise of Linux in the home arena.. here is why. money will let you develop at a faster rate and provide better support for your product, while marketing will show people that it is out there and hype the pros of that product. so once word gets out then software companies will see people are looking at this but looking for software for it.. so a new market opens and software companies get rich porting there software for Linux. as more software comes out the computer stores will start pushing it more and more as it becomes supportable. this was the exact same thing that killed OS2 warp and launched win95 into hystory, but a lot of you are to young to remember that

Steve