Thread: Microsoft to pull XP and support

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I don't see that happening unless big companies start to push it. I see more people flocking to Apple because of the popularity of the iPod and because they advertise. No one advertises that their computers run Linux and the only people that know that IBM and Dell sell Linux boxes are computer nerds.

It'll be interesting to see what happens, it a great time to be in the computer field

Well I didn't have like, a mass migration in mind or anything. Simply that people on the edge are much more likely to go to linux, and occasionally some others will be sick of vista and look for alternatives. But yeah, ubuntu can never grow large, because there is no money in it. It really comes down to that, unfortunately. But I suppose the fact that it's NOT large is nice because no one makes viruses for it either Though I suppose I would rather deal with the possibility of viruses (and ubuntu is inherently, I believe, less susceptible to viruses than windows) in exchange for much more compatibility with software and hardware, and generally the world.

Originally Posted by wasup

and ubuntu is inherently, I believe, less susceptible to viruses than windows

You are correct, it's UNIX-style back end is far less susceptible to viruses than Windows.

There is some money being put into Ubuntu, but not very much. Specifically the companies that use Ubuntu (Novell, IBM...) do push some money into it.