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XP and the future

Posted May 16, 2008 15:25 UTC (Fri) by NigelK (guest, #42083)
In reply to: XP and the future by Max.Hyre
Parent article: OLPC and Microsoft

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.

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XP and the future

Posted May 17, 2008 12:16 UTC (Sat) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link]

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.

XP and the future

Posted May 21, 2008 8:53 UTC (Wed) by anandsr21 (guest, #28562) [Link]

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 ;-).