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Posted by Lefty Bigfoot on August 9, 2005, 8:16 pm
billwg wrote
>
>> The Snorker wrote
>> (in article
>>> I'll stick with Windows because the community is so much friendlier and
>>> more knowledgeable as well.
>>> The Snorkster
>>
>> BTW, you (and by extension all Windows fans) should be deeply
>> appreciative for competing products such as Linux, OS X,
>> FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. Why? Because competition drives product
>> improvements. Microsoft is peddling much faster than normal
>> these days on the OS front trying to keep up with features,
>> security and stability due to competing products eating into (at
>> whatever rate, as long as its non-zero it's acting in your
>> favor) MS market share.
>>
>> Competition is good. You benefit from it, regardless of what
>> operating system you favor.
>>
> Any suggestion as to just what linux feature(s) Windows is peddling faster
> to keep up with?
Value would have to be number 1. Microsoft needs to be many
orders of magnitude better to justify the price.
Security, no brainer. Everyone knows this, whether they choose
to admit it or not.
Spyware, browser hijacking, popup ads, etc. may or may not be
included in the security bucket in your world.
Stability, much lower incidence of applications taking down the
entire system, forced reboots, etc.
Faster update cycle from bug report to patch.
64-bit support is *still* behind Linux, although it's catching
up, having been over 2 years late to the party for AMD64 and
em64T.
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