Come on, take a stand.

“We have a number of ideas that we have implemented so far,..”

Unfortunately, not the ones we asked for. Simple, solid, reliable Linux across the board. Linux runs on (damn near) _every_ machine made. Microsoft Windows runs on only certain machines. Certainly every machine capable of running Microsoft Windows is _more_ than capable of running Linux. No excuses. Do it. Give all purchasers of all machines a choice. Microsoft Windows or Linux.

Open Office is available for any reasonable OS. (Sorry Atari ;-)). Install it. It works. People who want something else will install that something else. Period. You will have made life easier for all the rest.

Or, Dell can continue to blather about their many blessings.. & we, the people who want choices other than Microsoft Windows & Microsoft Office will continue to take it in the backside.

p.s. driver issues is a red herring for Dell. They make their own video/audio etc. sub systems. They write Microsoft Windows drivers for all of them. They are more than capable of posting Linux drivers for everyone of them.

I am a member of the IdeaStorm team at Dell. Indeed, Dell is listening to customer requests on IdeaStorm, and our latest move related to Linux is just one example of that. We have a number of ideas that we have implemented so far, and even more that we now have under consideration. Another example of this was our response to customers’ ideas about how to have more control over the software on their PC, by giving customers more opportunity to opt-out of some preinstalled software.

We’ve really been impressed with the ideas coming in, and hope that we’ll continue to see the enthusiasm and creativity from the community. This Web 2.0 implementation is proving to be a great way to turn up the volume of conversations between Dell and its customers.

Caroline