MC 2: MC2 Post 1173 Why Chasing Apple and Facebook is no Picnik for Google

Sunday, January 22, 2012

MC2 Post 1173 Why Chasing Apple and Facebook is no Picnik for Google

And For Windows Too. They're dragging

BE-Hind Apple and Android.

See the Second Part of this Equation.

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FIRST

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From: http://news.cnet.com

Google Cancels Picnik and Closes a

few Other Businesses

Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57363171-93/google-cancels-picnik-and-closes-a-few-other-businesses/

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/7ncwel7

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SECOND

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From: http://arstechnica.com

While Windows IS dragging Be-Hind Apple and Android

and trying desparately from LINUX

getting on the

Windows Desktop.

Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult

With Windows 8 coming out later this year, there has already been controversy about whether computers that ship with Windows 8 will have the ability to run Linux, either as a replacement for Windows or in a dual-boot setup. As we've reported, a process called UEFI secure booting prevents the booting of operating systems not signed by a trusted Certificate Authority—and hardware makers must enable the secure boot technology to qualify for a Designed for Windows 8 logo.

Link: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/microsoft-mandating-secure-boot-on-arm-making-linux-installs-difficult.ars

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/73gz9rk

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From: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source

Is the Linux Desktop actually growing?

I don't think so.

Wingman.

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First reported by Katherine Noyes on Linux Insider, it turns out that the Web research firm Net Applications’ data show that Linux’s desktop market share has been growing , from a mere 0.97 percent in July, 2011 to a new high of 1.41 percent in January, 2012.

As a Linux lover, this is good news, but it’s also odd news. GNOME, long the desktop interface darling of many Linux desktop users, lost many of its fan with its 3.x revision. Ubuntu, long the most popular Linux desktop, changed to a new interface, Unity, in April 2011 and many people hate the new Unity desktop.

Mint Linux, which recently surged to the top of mind for Linux desktop users, has kept its fans, but now it’s also changing its desktop interface. With its users turning up their noses at GNOME 3.2, it’s now creating its own GNOME 3.x shell: Cinnamon.

Link: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/is-the-linux-desktop-actually-growing/10160

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/7k2segt

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Even Ubuntu IS walking backwards these days....

Canonical backtracks on deleting

Oracle's Sun Java

From Ubuntu...

From: http://www.h-online.com