Microsoft tried to torpedo the success of the Japan Linux Symposium 2009 by launching their Windows 7 product that same day. They even had setup a big promotion booth across the street from the conference center.
During a break, the organizers decided to make some fun of Microsoft and dragged Linus over there. When they arrived there, Linus was sold immediately on the product as you can see in the picture. At least that’s what the sales guy thought, he obviously had no idea who he was dealing with! But in the end Linus surprisingly did not buy a copy.
I’m nominating this as the picture of the year! 🙂
Photo by Chris Schlaeger.
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for how far windows 7 will go???????????
Ubuntu is the winner……………
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Windows 7…
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It's a good joke.
LOL
Look at this 😀
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Nce6v6NsvRdr…
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I can not read signs at the picture. Is Windows 7 still having problems with encodings? That is why Linus is so glad.
I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.
Windows 7, heck Windows in general, is and will continue to be a great operating system. What other company besides Microsoft lets you easily create applications for free. Sure, you can't sell your Visual Studio 2008 Express apps but you sure can give them away for free.
Neither MAC or Linux can provide really easy application development like Microsoft can for Windows.
Windows will continue to dominate because it simply provides more.
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