Why Linux didn’t win in 2007 and why it won’t in 2008 either

December 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

2007 was touted as ‘the year for Linux’ and indeed the first quarter looked promising but things never really took off. Why is that?

Ultimately 2007 was a good year for Linux but it wasn’t “the” year. 2008 won’t be the year either unfortunately. I hoped Vista would be the catalyst for the mass conversion but the climate wasn’t quite right, and until the leading releases (Ubuntu, PCLOS, etc) make something so painfully simple that you don’t need to be a computer scientist to understand what you’re doing.