XP and the future

XP and the future

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the (IMHO) real reason: indoctrination. Kids booting to XP will learn MS == OS == computer. Once that's learned, MS's work is done. Older kids (often called ``adults'') will feel at home in XP, and default to MS when they buy their next computer, or spec their next corporate purchase.

It'll be interesting to see how long XP, with its declared EOL, will be sold for the XO. Somehow I don't see Vista running on one of those.

Indoctrination would have been a good argument ten years ago, but now not only is Linux out
there amongst the masses, but it's got a hell of a Google footprint too. The moment a smart
and curious kid gets Internet access and stumbles upon it, then there'll probably be no going
back unless the latest version of Windows can offer a better experience for him.

Heh - unless the kid wants to play games, and let's face it, 95% of what kids do with
computers will be games.  In which case it's Linux that loses.

I'm just pessimist though.

Well you won't expect "those" children to buy the 50$ games. They will probably only be
playing the freely available ones, probably flash, which have a high probability of working on
Linux. Out of the box linux has more games ;-).