PC's running Windows 7 with optimized BIOS set-up boot quickly but really, who cold boots a PC much anymore? I usually put mine in hibernation and it 'wakes' within about 10 seconds tops.

Or, why not spend $300 on a netbook running Windows 7 which supports any Web app and 10's of thousands of PC apps?

Of course, even Vista sold more units in its first month or two of existance than all of the PC's that have ever run Linux (excluding servers). Everything is relative.

Not really. My mom and pop - aged 79 and 76 - use Microsoft Word and Excel, Quicken, Turbo Tax and Photoshop Elements and several other PC applications. Yes, there are Web-based versions of most of those products but they don't work as well and only work when online (still). A relatively small number of wealthier people will buy Chrome OS devices as a 2nd, 3rd or 4th machine but they'll continue to use PC's and Macs for everything else.

So Google has a few thousand customers - most of whom are also using Microsoft Office - and Microsoft is dead? Ok then...

Within months we'll start hearing: 1. Low-end users - those who don't generally works at desks - will be the primary users of Google Apps. 2. Most of their desk workers will continue to use Microsoft Office. They'll use Google Apps for email and sharing Word, Excel and PowerPoint docs. 3. The total cost of this move will probably be higher than using on-premises mail servers or using servers. 4. There will be another GMail/Google Docs outage that will piss people off. And, I'd say there's a 50-60% chance that they'll back off this experiment within a year or two and use Google Apps in a much more limited way.

Dvorak is pissed that Microsoft PR flacks no longer kiss his ass. He's irrelevant and knows it. If Microsoft assigned a personal PR person to him he'd undoubtedly change his tune. I wouldn't if I were them.

Have you actually used Windows 7? Apparently not. I have Win7 running on a $400 acer netbook with an Intel Atom processor, 2 gigs of RAM and plain vanilla on-board video and it runs just fine.

Microsoft has already implemented this in Bing (www.bing.com/twitter/) and Google is just announcing...vaporwarwe? That's sort of funny.

This is modded funny? Really? This is just another of the un-original and un-interesting thoughts shared on /. Have you ever actually had an original thought? How about I lower the bar - originality is hard. Have you actually had a thought that had not already been expressed less than 10,000 times on /. in the last year? In this case...no.

If 6 in 10 business have no plans to deploy Windows 7 in the next year is bad news then I want some of that! Let's see...what would the comparable headlines be? 9.9 in 10 businesses have no plan to deploy Linux (desktop)in the next year! 9.4 in 10 businesses have no plans to deploy MacOS in the next year! Microsoft would undoubtedly be thrilled if 4 in 10 businesses deployed Windows 7 in the next year. Any other software company in the world would be thrilled with that result. Time to move along.

Why would IBM and Cisco be better positioned than Microsoft in the cloud? That makes no sense. Microsoft is still the leading or one of the leading developer platform providers. 10's of thousands of companies and millions of developers use Microsoft frameworks and tools for software development. Yes, there are lots of great alternatives (Java, Php, Ruby etc. etc. etc.) and that's a good thing. But all things being equal I'd probabyl rather be Microsoft right now than pretty much any other company trying to establsh itself in the cloud except perhaps Amazon and Google. In addition to the developer platform assets, they have the capital to build lots of big/expensive datacenters, the network of partners/ISV's who use their platforms and lots of mindshare. IBM, from what I can tell, is essentially just doing the same thing they've been doing forever - offering good but expensive outsourcing services for very large businesses who have too much money to spend.

That's /. for you. I'd go further: I'd venture that more people have bought more than one copy of Vista than have ever used Linux on the client. ;) Think of all of the people who have bought more than one PC since Vista shipped.

I'd bet $1000 that more people have DOWNGRADED from Vista to Windows XP than have ever used Linux as a client OS.

Is it just me or is the Linux Foundation site not working? Hmm... They must be running Windows Server. ;)