Top Stories of 2001, #5: No Linux!
WinInfo | at | by Mike
For the past few years, you could confidently predict that every computer industry pundit in the world would write some article about the rise of Linux on the desktop. "1999 will be THE year of Linux on the desktop," they cried. "OK, seriously, 2000 is it! Well, maybe 2001." Maybe not. In 2001, the dot com market officially dried up, the economy nosedived into a cyclic recession, and the market for Linux on the desktop remained nonexistent.