Once again, I think it makes sense, for the sake of clarity, to keep
these point separated into priorities in operating system design and
priorities in business strategy, as they're obviosly completely
separate, and the point jawahar was trying to make was about the
operating system design. So:

Microsoft's priorities in OS design:
1. Usability
2. Features
3. Performance

And these business strategies priorities don't make sense - making
money goes without saying, it's the reason for having a business
strategy.

Business strategy priorities:
1. Distribution contracts (vendor lock-in)
2. Marketing (there's actually surprisingly little of this)

Or something.

Still, I feel their operating system design strategy is far more
interesting and useful to us.

Robin.

2008/7/17 Conrad Knauer <email address hidden>:
> jawahar wrote on 2008-07-13:
>
> ---
> MS priorities has been
> 1. Usability
> 2. Features
> 3. Performance
> ---
>
> Just to add a note to some of the other comments about this, the #1
> priority at Microsoft, really more than anything else, is profit.  #2 is
> probably marketing and #3 vendor lock-in, both of which feed into #1.
> Any software priorities necessarily come after that, so reworking the
> above:
>
> 4. Usability
> 5. Features
> 6. Performance
>
> So security would come in at #7 or so?  That sounds about right ;)
>
> --
> Microsoft has a majority market share
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1
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>
> Bug description:
> Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
> This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.
>
> Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.
>
> Steps to repeat:
>
> 1. Visit a local PC store.
>
> What happens:
> 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
> 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.
>
> What should happen:
> 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
> 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
> 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.
>