[ Thanks to Chris for
this link. ]
“Common knowledge tells us that, for web and email servers,
Linux is generally a preferable platform to Windows NT, due to its
speed, reliability, and price. Unfortunately, because Linux is hard
to install, hard to use, and has few brand-name programs available,
it is finding a hard time breaking into the average user’s desktop.
But… What if Microsoft were to port some of its products to
Linux?”
“With more big-name applications becoming available on Linux,
there would be some interesting changes. You would be able to sit
at work, using a Linux-based machine running MS Office. Before you
go home, you could email yourself the large, complicated document
you’ve been working with so you can continue in the evening. When
you sit at your home computer running Windows, you receive the
emailed document and open it in MS Office. Because you are using
the same program, the document files are identical. There are no
inaccurate conversions between different document formats, no
missing macros, etc.”
“If big brand-name applications like Office were ported to
Linux, consumers who just use web browsers and word processors
would see that Linux is not only for college students and
technogeeks. It’s an operating system anybody can profitably
use.”