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Analsys & Opinion My Shout Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet
Analsys & Opinion My Shout Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet | Microsoft cannot withstand Linux pyramid: philosopher Girardet |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Thursday, 13 April 2006 | |
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Page 2 of 2 According to Girardet, the cracks in the dam for Microsoft are beginning widen as the software giant comes under increasing pressure to bring its new products to market in order to perpetuate its pricing model. “You can see the troubles beginning for Microsoft now,” says Girardet. “You just have to look at their latest press releases about their delays and so on.” According to Girardet, migrating from Windows to SLED is not going to be the painful process that some people in the Windows community are making it out to be. “Our testing with usability groups has shown that people saw it as much of a difference as going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP,” he says. “At the end of the day the change is very similar but people can judge that for themselves. “My personal opinion is that we are now at the point with SLED where we can make Linux hidden from the user. We have done a lot of usability testing and it has allowed us to create a very easy to use and simple interface designed around ease of access. Open Suse release 10.1 is basis for the Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED). We have taken this release in its entirety and have put some glue around it to make it easy for people to install, put some drivers in, put some additional proprietary software in, package it all together and that is basically our flagship product.” The only caveat on Girardet’s optimism is the impending final release of SLED. The software is still in beta and the finished product is not due to hit the market until sometime in June. “We still have three solid months of development to do and the combined effort that’s going on now is incredible,” he says.{moscomment}
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