Upgrade to Ubuntu on the Windows Marketplace
This is a very good thing, a very bad thing or a complete and total blunder by someone. The Ubuntu desktop is listed for free download on the Windows marketplace complete with description and user reviews.
Ubuntu is listed under Bios and System Updates on the Windows Marketplace. There doesn’t seem to be any logical reason for it to be listed here. It’s neither a Bios nor system update, unless the purpose of putting it there was to keep it hidden but then that would be silly.
If someone wants to download Ubuntu, I doubt very much they would be searching on the Windows Marketplace for it as the first Google result is the Ubuntu Homepage where you can download Ubuntu until you’re green in the face, if you so desire.
At least the Windows Marketplace isn’t actually hosting the download but we’re back at square one, why is it there in the first place? The download available is listed from Cnet and you could download it from Cnet, if you want.
It just seems a bit pointless to download Ubuntu from any other source than its proper site. Unless the site is down because of a certain website in which case other third party sites get hammered and then no one is downloading it or if they are, it is very slow.
One would think Microsoft wouldn’t want anything Linux listed on the Windows Marketplace. We’ll be taking bets on how long it takes Ubuntu to “magically” disappear from the Windows Marketplace, place them now!
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June 21st, 2007
Four days.
June 21st, 2007
that is nutty..the link seems to have been taken down..shame! perhaps a disgruntled microsoft employee posted it
I used windows vista for 3 months and found it a disapointing experience to say the least. ubuntu 7.04 feisty on the other hand I can recommend to any desktop user. truly innovative!
June 22nd, 2007
That’s got to be a record, I’ll have to agree with you on the disgruntled employee…
Sad that the link is gone but we knew it would eventually happen.
June 24th, 2007
I really like this article, its very informative.
June 27th, 2007
caleb .. i must agree with you..
i used Vista for about 4 months and i deleted it yesterday after i couldnt stand it anymore
September 4th, 2007
I just used Vista for the first time the other day…..and I almost threw the machine it was installed on out the window – I mean that literally, too. I picked it up in anger and had every intention of throwing it through the window…but it was plugged into one of my rather nice monitors and when that monitor fell off my desk, my attitude changed pretty quick, heh.
I’ve never been so frustrated with an operating system in my entire career as a repairman. I have to say it was probably the *least* intuitive layout for…a lot of things that I have ever experienced. I’ll save the space of the details…suffice it to say, that after much, much frustration (mostly with generic, useless error messages) it was finally discovered on some remote forum that the drivers for this guy’s hardware just don’t work in Vista – although they install fine, and appear to work – they do not. Just for kicks, I popped in Ubuntu Feisty (while this guy was standing there) and when it booted up fully functional and ready to go from the livecd about four minutes later, his jaw dropped – then he started asking “can you do internet” – showed him firefox – “can you do AIM, though?” – showed him GAIM, and he was confused about the lack of advertisements filling his screen when he signed in (which made me chuckle a bit) – “can you do email” – showed him evolution, which I don’t like and he didn’t either, so I showed him how to install Thunderbird – and it was after he witnessed how incredibly easy it is to install new software in Ubuntu (through that handy little Add/Remove thingy that Ubuntu added at the bottom of Gnome’s application list) that he just asked me to install that instead of Vista (I also mentioned that he wouldn’t have to worry about viruses, spyware and all that jazz, just some common sense – which you don’t really even need very much of to keep linux secure)… It’s just too bad he had already opened his copy of Vista and can’t get all that money back now….oh well, such is life, I suppose. (At least I got paid!!) It’s nerve racking to think of all the problems I’m gonna have to figure out how to solve in clicky clicky land (since the command line is pretty much useless in Vista it seems – it at least doesn’t have the same basic functionality that XP’s did i.e. No telnet?! Come on, already… What the hell kind of OS for a networked computer doesn’t come with telnet?), but that’s another rant all together.
March 18th, 2008
TyphoidHippo:
I also use Ubuntu, but I hope that you agreed to support this customer for the next year…for instance when they try something more difficult, like installing their new camera or camcorder software, or that new game that the kids want to play.
A quick look on store shelves shows you just how many Linux apps are available from retail. OS Times are changing, but for the general public the time is not yet (not without a friend to lean on).