How Vista's total failure hurt Linux
Once I got a good look at Vista, I knew desktop Linux was in for good times. Vista was, and still is, a disaster of an operating system. I was right too. When netbooks started coming out, it was Linux, not Vista, that ruled.
What I hadn't expected though was that Vista would be such an absolute sales flop that Microsoft would actually reverse course and bring back first XP Home and then, in December 2008, XP Pro.
Of course, Microsoft hasn't come right out and said, "Vista sucks, we get it, here have XP instead," but for all intents and purposes, that's exactly what they're doing. That's one reason why they're pushing Windows 7, aka Vista Lite, out the door as fast as possible.
Windows 7, unlike Vista, will run on netbooks. Once, Windows 7 is out, Microsoft will go back to the business of killing off XP.
In the meantime, though, Linux has gone from owning the netbook niche to no longer even holding a majority stake in it. What happened?
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