Re: WalMart drops Linux computers - Customers were not interested.

[Moshe Goldfarb]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:46:16 -0400, Steven Friel Jr. wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310...nux_computer_ylt=ArvZPfJ6eqZClr4Brt.eJBYjtBAF
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> Mon Mar 10, 5:55 PM ET
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> NEW YORK - Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of
> Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart
> customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a spokeswoman
> said Monday.
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> "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart
> Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien
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> Linux is in widespread use in server computers, but it hasn't made a dent in
> the desktop market. Surveys usually put its share of that market around 1
> percent, far behind Windows and Apple Inc.'s OS X.
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> [-quote]

Roy Schestowitz seems to have missed another important Linux story.

He sure has plenty of Microsoft hate posts today though.

So what else is [New]?

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[Stevie_Ballmer]

Moshe Goldfarb wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:46:16 -0400, Steven Friel Jr. wrote:
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>>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310...nux_computer_ylt=ArvZPfJ6eqZClr4Brt.eJBYjtBAF
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>>
>>

>>
>> Mon Mar 10, 5:55 PM ET
>>
>> NEW YORK - Computers that run the Linux operating system instead of
>> Microsoft Corp.'s Windows didn't attract enough attention from Wal-Mart
>> customers, and the chain has stopped selling them in stores, a
>> spokeswoman said Monday.
>>
>>
>> "This really wasn't what our customers were looking for," said Wal-Mart
>> Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien
>>
>> Linux is in widespread use in server computers, but it hasn't made a dent
>> in the desktop market. Surveys usually put its share of that market
>> around 1 percent, far behind Windows and Apple Inc.'s OS X.
>>
>> [-quote]

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> Roy Schestowitz seems to have missed another important Linux story.
>
> He sure has plenty of Microsoft hate posts today though.
>
> So what else is [New]?
>

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