Then there are more software than that from Microsoft to consider. Saying – “Hey, boss I just upgraded our fully functional system to the greatest and latest, and now it doesn’t work anymore” is not a good career move. This is why people stay on the platform they know to work for as long as possible. In fact it, sometimes is problematic enough to upgrade from one version to another within the same OS. Unfortunately, I think that it still holds true, just look at the situation for VBA in latest versions of MS-Office for MacOS and Microsoft OSes. Combine that with some new cool mini laptop for $100 or so, and Linux may be very tempting even to the die hard XP user. “Look guys, I can use the mouse!”, or “It just works” doesn’t cut it for that group of people.įor the abandoned XP user on the other hand this is exactly what is needed. Nerds can no longer use it to brag to their fellow nerds about how good they are with computers. Linux have come a long way already, and is now almost as boring (to the nerd) as windows. Linux can be downloaded and tinkered with for free, and some people may find that it suits their needs. Naturally, Linux is a change, and like you say people don’t like change, but they like it even less if it cost them an arm and a leg.
In the mean time Linux is getting better and better. It may take several years before people reach that point. This will force an upgrade to something, and that something might very well be Linux.
The problem is that at some point they need new hardware, or software, or patches for security flaws. Yes, people will stick with XP (or even w2k) as long as they can, and for good reasons. the people know XP and they will fight for it, if they dont need to change they wont. vista was change, linux is an even bigger change. Linux will not likely over take teh desktop if windows 7 fails.
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