Hi :) When this bug was first posted even laptops were quite rare. So the only form-factor that people were aware of was desktops. It is already difficult to imagine such a time!
It was after this bug was posted that netbooks came out and they were swiftly crushed by clever tactics from MS. Do you remember going through that time? It was unthinkable that normal users might have access to anything non-MS. That is what this bug-report is about. If the original poster could go back in time then i am certain there would have been at least 3 bug-reports in order to still apply today. Almost everyone who posted to this thread was basing their responses on the solid fact that desktop machines were the only form-factor available to normal users. This bug-report was about reaching normal users. As such it HAS been solved. Now the whole landscape has changed radically. There are new words to cover technology that hadn't been anticipated outside of Sci-fi. Many of the responses are laughably wrong these days but were quite wise at the time. We have an opportunity to recognise that things were different back in the old days and an opportunity to cut away legacy stuff that is no longer useful. Continuing with this thread would be much like keeping a bug-report open about support for Betamax systems or even VHS ones. While technically not solved it has become largely irrelevant because it fails to account for the new landscape. Of course 1 slight difference is that people still have movies that were recorded onto Betamx or VHS ;) Regards from Tom :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
