11% at Robert Pogson

11% is what IDC says the growth in global PC shipments was in Q3 from 2009 to 2010 and that’s about what M$’s increase in revenue for that other OS on clients was.

That’s not very exciting for the monopoly when they finally produce a decent product after 6-8 years of effort. Imagine how sad the picture would be if GNU/Linux and MacOS had been on the same shelves in the retail channel. 11% is about normal growth in numbers of PCs sold and these quarters were pre-”7″ and post-”7″ so there was not a rush to buy “7″. The business division had a similar gain. The huge price of Office must have saved them. No wonder more businesses are using OpenOffice.org every day. M$ would have nearly doubled profits if they had never produced Vista or “7″ because their costs would have been much lower.

Seen another way, in a quarter when 90million PCs were sold they had revenue of only $52 per PC while in the pre-”7″ Q3/2009 they had revenue of only $52 per PC so “7″ was worth nothing more than XP. All that time. Billions invested… No return on investment. Bloat is a burden even to M$.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.