Comment 846 for bug 1

I agree totally that Microsoft leads the OS market simply because unfortunatly of 3 main and very importatnt facts!

1) Hardware support

2) Great sofware that though commercial is not developed for Linux and this should be. Interopeability

3) Rubbish email support Cant import Windows live mail account .iaf format into Linux. setting up email is a pita in linux sloppy really.

Overall I have to agree its not just a case of building machines with hardware that UBUNTU supports is a question of widespread development of drivers that support the state of the art hardware like SLI mostly in laptops and for those that are gamers well thge development of games that can be just installed in linux like thy would in windows, teh same for sofware like Photoshop, Autocad, Revit, Microstation, 3dsMAX, SAP, EPOS and on to other industry standards software... That were this to happen I tell you that the marriage inbetween Open source free OS and paid/commercial sofware professionals use would be more appealing for companies to make a switch because either way you look at it your saving a huge amount of money in licensing. no retraining on similar packages and instant more organised productivity and efficiency.

The Future of Linux OR UBUNTU in this case is to embrace the standard industry standards that professionals are used too in other ares and maybe then gradually they would give the opensource replacements a try and learn as they go suggesting to companies a use it cause its free its not allways the most appealing approach. Though it makes a great case.

People moan about Microsoft rubbish, resource hogging OS that really in the end ends up winning because widespread hardware support on every main stream machine is extremely important I cant use a web cam in linuc
x or a scanner at home without using WINE eh nice as that is it still looks sloppy or similar ,messengers are not Video Orientaded like 1 messenger to rule them all Pidgin fo e.g. where it to support a multi Video Chat via the MSN network or its own free protocols man oh man.

I praize Linux and the values the ideals of the people that put so much effort into making UBUNTU stand well out and be the most viable distro. I also agree that too many distros that really each try to offer something diffrerent and then people moan about the 50 flavours of Vista eh! Though some education in differences that exist in between Linux and windows I have to say that personally I live with triple boot platforms because each has a unique feature that I like and prefer over the other. but fix these 3 issue and Microsoft will be Broke in no time... And I would switch my whole network to Linux and my works network and many other companies would follow suit.

So heres the question how to get commercial developers to develop drivers and sofware for Linux instead. more so that the few that already do... And all with a nice GUI not everyone is a linux Buff people are afraid of a dos prompt never mind being afraid of so much more powerfull Linux Console.

Openoffice support on IRC is a joke... jst thought I throw that in.