Dark days? I see a bright furture!

I'm very optimistic about Ubuntu's future. While Linux's Netbook days are "over" (some people a claiming that Microsoft has already 90% of sales look at this and this.) Though these are bad news I still see bright days for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu's quality is getting stronger and it's still growing. Ubuntu is heading the right direction with the cloud strategy. It's like Canonical is moving some pieces to unleash an attack on Microsoft. Canonical is just waiting and doing their thing. Jaunty and Koala are very important releases for the OS. I'm testing Jaunty on both of my computers, and I can tell you it rocks! It's boot speed has improved dramatically. The artwork is moving ahead (it was about time!), they gave us a new Log In Screen and new official themes, though you have to get them through Synaptic, I hope they remove the old ugly themes that come with Gnome and replace them with the new themes.

Canonical has great plans for the Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10), just look at the announcement here. Now the Koala is aiming at the cloud. If you've been watching the Koala, it's getting strong support from many cloud companies. This means that Ubuntu will not just be a computer desktop, it will become a portal to software as service as well. What kind of apps Ubuntu will have in the cloud? I don't know, but I expect a lot of diversity.

Ubuntu is getting very interesting. All it needs is a company with the balls to really support it. Dell is doing their thing, but they are very shy because they are scared of Microsoft's "power", HP has the Mini Mi (but who knows it's Ubuntu/Linux if they don't even mention that on their site). A year ago when I started using Linux I never thought that all mayor PC manufacturers would support Linux in some way or another, the fact that Linux is getting some support is good, but we, the community want to see some real support.

I don't believe there is a company that has the balls to go out and say "Hey Microsoft you can shove Windows up your corporate @$$!"

Come on Windows is were it is because Microsoft has stolen ideas from hundreds of companies, they have abused of everyone that gets in their way and have monopolized the market with low quality, bloated, insecure software.

We Ubuntu users know that Microsoft can't compete against Ubuntu's quality. As soon as you get into Ubuntu you never go back to Windows, it happened to me, it happened to the 10 million people (and counting) using it, it can happen to millions and millions of other people as well.

I see a bright future for Ubuntu, I know Canonical is preparing their weapons to go into a war against Microsoft and little by little we will gain some terrain. I'm not saying that Ubuntu will dominate, but at least it will become a real alternative to Mac OSX and Windows some time.