Canonical's CEO Jane Silber spoke at the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network' event in New Delhi where she launched these computers. "A founding principle of Ubuntu is to make computing more accessible," she said. "By working with Dell to bring these machines to market, we're providing millions of people with the opportunity of an affordable, high-quality computing experience - in some cases, for the first time."
The main advantage of Ubuntu over Microsoft is that it loads much faster than Windows and unlike Windows it does not slow down with usage. Loyal Windows fan can install Ubuntu software on their Windows computer to access and use certain features; in order to use all the Ubuntu features you need to install it as an operating system in a separate partition on the hard disk. Installing in a separate partition will allow the user to continue using both the operating system one at a time. Along with this it also installs as a PC operating system on multi-core Android phones.
Ubuntu first appeared in the market seven years ago and since then it has been slowly but surely climbing the ladder of success. Since its inception it has seen 16 versions and till date not even a single report of virus attack has been heard. Earlier it was mostly preferred by technically inclined people and now with the enhanced user interface even general and the lay man finds it easy to operate on.
In the October of 2011 Canonical and Dell came together to launch computers loaded with Ubuntu operating system in China. It just started with 220 outlets and almost a year later the number of outlets increased by more than 100 and it is still only increasing as stated on Canonical official blog.
The main target segment and market that Canonical is aiming at is the small and medium business sectors, with a main focus on building private cloud computing systems.
