Chickens Roost at Robert Pogson

Remember how explosive the sales of “7″ were going?
” revenue for Redmond’s Windows division fell to $5.1 billion from $7.2 billion, a 29 percent drop. Net income from Windows sales was down 39 percent to $3.3 billion from $5.4 billion”
see ITworld

Reality distortion fields are failing, rats are leaving a sinking ship, and survivors are throwing others overboard.

In a year when 450 million PCs were sold, M$ managed to put “7″ on only 300 million. That’s 66%, folks… What was on the other 150 millon? Previously purchased licences for XP in business. Not Vista. A bunch were GNU/Linux, folks.

Diversification? The on-line deficit grew. Only toys showed good growth. Perhaps M$ should get out of IT.

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.