Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy (ZDNet)

Jason Perlow suggests some Linux adoption strategies in a ZDNet blog. "To get Joe Sixpack to switch to Linux, he’s going to need an easy way to move from his existing XP OS to his end-state, with all of his important data — his Office files, his emails, his contacts, MP3 files, digital photos and what have you, so a foolproof migration process is going to have to be designed. According to my fantasy scenario, Ubuntu and Google join forces and Google provides a freely downloadable program that installs on the client Windows PC, sets the user up with an online Google account, and sucks out all the office files, email and other critical data, backing it up to the cloud, which would be automatically restored to the target Linux install."

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