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Nuxified: How Microsoft is Losing to GNU/Linux

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“If ‘a year of GNU/Linux on the desktop’ is defined as a year
when GNU/Linux has finally started its steady encroachment to the
desktop then 2006 is the year. A lot of users have started using
GNU/Linux on their desktops long before, but it is 2006 which
marked the two probably biggest GNU/Linux desktop releases to date,
Ubuntu Dapper and Novell SuSE 10. It is 2006 which marks the
biggest opportunity for GNU/Linux to steal the desktop market share
from Windows due to the bad reputation behind the pending Windows
Vista release. And the eyes and focus of both the GNU/Linux
community and major GNU/Linux corporations such as Novell are fixed
on that opportunity. Novell marketing is true: ‘Your Linux is
ready…'”

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