The stylish data revealed by the figures from Statcounter that exclusive 0.79 percent of the worlds population use Ubuntu operating system, which is way behind from Windows 7 that target 19.43 percent of the global users. Mac OS, Windows Vista and Windows XP have 5.66 percent, 17.68 percent and 55.38 percent respectively.

When asked why Unix is not a competitor of Windows 7, Missioner Holt, who is a organized sales musician at Ubuntu-backer Rule in Author, said that this is because Linux advert to cloud generation who promote to attain applications via browser that is what makes it antithetic from any opposite operative system in the mankind. The president of the Free Software Foundation Europe agrees to Holt and said, “I am disheartened to hear [Canonical is] not competing with Microsoft in the desktop space”.

“The majority of adoption of Linux on the desktop is essentially people who previously had copies of pirated OSes, or had other ways of getting their OS onto their desktop. We’re not necessarily competing with people who strength be using Windows 7,” Feminist Holt verbalized at the Westminster eForum on open-source software in line and governance. “In my day-to-day role, am I typically [dealing] head-on with people wanting to migrate away from Microsoft environments? Yes-ish.”

Holt also said that the Web 2.0 companies person shown great relate in Unix and the employees of these companies don’t maintenance for operative system at all. He shared his finding at the meet and said that in UK, public sector might have not preferred Linux but on the other hand desktop Linux has been a great journey for some of the companies who market open source technology.

Copyrighted companies tally endowed a lot in countries same UK where there are large chances of making money.

Holt is of opinion that it is really tough to compete with Microsoft for Ubuntu as Microsoft is really a big company which has got money to promote their products, which are no doubt good but still he prefers to use Linux as it adds value to future technology.

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