Comment 1861 for bug 1

Sorry Mark, but as many above I also cannot consider this bug being
fixed. Only last week I wanted to buy a new Canonical certified
hardware from Dell - they definitely do not want to sell a non-Windows
PC to me. Best offer I could get (after insisting) is at about 1 third
more expensive. I never had such problems before with Dell and of
course this is not the first time I want to buy a non-Windows PC. -
Just to give an example. Similar issue at other places.

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Mark Shuttleworth
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Personal computing today is a broader proposition than it was in 2004:
> phones, tablets, wearables and other devices are all part of the mix for
> our digital lives. From a competitive perspective, that broader market
> has healthy competition, with IOS and Android representing a meaningful
> share

Yes, but these new devices mostly cannot be considered to be a
replacement for a desktop PC or laptop. Most people owning a tablet
also own a PC. For productive work in most cases a laptop or PC is
still the best choice. Tablets and Smartphones are still only a
secondary device used for emailing and news-reading (or playing) in
the very most cases.

> It's worth noting that today, if you're into cloud computing, the
> Microsoft IAAS team are both technically excellent and very focused on
> having ALL OS's including Linux guests like Ubuntu run extremely well on
> Azure, making them a pleasure to work with.

At the server side Linux already won a long time ago, but not at
client side and I always thought that Bug #1 focuses on the client.

Best regards, Martin.