Linux: Not your grandma's desktop. osOpinion says the Linux desktop is about ready for Grandma to use. "Add in the licensing cost difference between Linux and Windows XP, and Linux is on deck to become the average corporate user's desktop."... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Has 'Desktop' Metaphor Outlived Its Usefulness? : Some computer scientists and interface experts think that the desktop metaphor has lived long past its usefulness and that this year we may have an ideal opportunity to make a leap as significant as the Mac interface was in 1984 - or we could pass that up. (Los Angeles Time Syndicate) [Dave Winer: Macintosh]
Robert Scoble works at Microsoft. Everything here, though, is his personal opinion and is not read or approved before it is posted. No warranties or other guarantees will be offered as to the quality of the opinions or anything else offered here.