Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight
Mark Shuttleworth's looking forward to a good, clean fight with Microsoft on netbooks that raises Linux's game once Windows 7 is released.
The founder of popular Linux distro Ubuntu and chief executive of Canonical, told The Reg his impressions of Windows 7 so far are that it's a great operating system.
Great? Doesn't Shuttleworth work for the competition? Shouldn't he be building up Windows 7's hidden weaknesses?
Apparently not. "I'm not going to 'diss it", he said categorically. So there.
In fact, Shuttleworth believes a good version of Windows will end the current phony war between Windows and Linux in the high-growth netbook market and mean a return to a fight on features and capabilities.
Shuttleworth believes a decent edition of Windows will mean Microsoft finally has to charge full price, and that it'll finally stop allowing OEMs to use low-cost copies of Windows XP instead of paying full price for the full version of the official flagship - Windows Vista.
