Trades Microsoft Windows Linux

All the flavors of Windows come Various distributions of

from Microsoft. Linux come from
different companies (i.e.
Windows has two main lines. Linspire, Red Hat, SuSE,
The older flavors are referred to Ubuntu, Xandros,
Flavors as “Win9x” and consist of Knoppix, Slackware,
Windows 95, 98, 98SE and Me. Lycoris, etc. ).
The newer flavors are referred
to as “NT class” and consist of
Windows NT3, NT4, 2000, XP,
Vista and Windows 7.
User-friendly GUI has been and The GUI of Linux has
continues to be the major USP improved tremendously
(GUI) Graphical of Windows OS. in the last few years.
User Interface Applications such as
Compiz took the Linux
GUI to next level.
Installing  Windows 7 is There is a huge variation
extremely easy and even a in the Linux installation
newbie can install without any procedure. Different
difficulties. distributions of Linux
have their own
installation programs.
Installing the
But installing the most
Operating System
preferred Linux distro,
Ubuntu is as easy as
Windows 7. While other
distros like gentoo have
quite unfriendly
installation procedures.
There is more application Not many softwares as
software available for Windows. compared to Windows
Application Software
but there are sufficient
number to do any job.
Installing any giving software is Newbies will face some
Application software
VERY easy in Windows. difficulty in installing
installation
certain softwares .
Security The vast majority of malicious There is virtually no
software (of all types) runs on virus that’s made for
Windows. Windows users are Linux!
burdened with the need for
anti-virus and anti-spyware
 software.
Windows 98, NT were very
buggy while the latest Windows
Bugs
7 is said to be having negligible
number of bugs.
Almost all the Hardware
available to a ‘ Regular
Supported
Consumer’ supports Windows.
Hardware Devices
Microsoft frequently updates
the OS to fix bugs and improve distro to the other.
features.
Updating Software
Though stability of Windows
improved tremendously with
the new releases, it is still not Stability is one of the
Stability as stable as Linux.
The price of latest OS from
Microsoft, Windows 7 starts at
Cost Rs. 5899 for the basic version
and goes till Rs. 11799 for the
Ultimate Version.
Linux typically has fewer
bugs than windows right
from earlier times.
Though Linux supports
majority of the
hardware, it still lags
behind windows in
hardware support.
It varies between one
Ubuntu fixes any
loopholes or bugs and
updates OS much faster
than Microsoft.
Stability is the major
USP of any Linux distro.
main reason why linux is
preferred for servers
over Windows, even
today.
Completely FREE.