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zolo:

quote:Originally posted by Predator:
Windows sucks. What more can we say? Everybody hates it, but why does everybody use it?
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One reason was MS's choice of the IBM compatible PC. As the components were "off the shelf" anyone could make one which lead to competition and thereby lower prices.

Secondly and most important is MS has excellent marketing - that's what they are good at.

zoo

Aloone_Jonez:
True, the IBM compatable PC is the best value system ever released, you get the most power for the least money. The main driving force of Moore's law is competition, we are very lucky to have lots with this between system manufacturers.

Things could be a lot worse, imagine if one company had dominance in both the hardware and software industry, it would be a disaster, a hardware monopoly alone would be bad enough.

I think a software monopoly is infinitely more tolerable than a hardware monopoly. It is far easier and cheaper to install new software than it is to buy new systems, and software incompatibly is far easier resolve than hardware incompatibly.

[ July 17, 2004: Message edited by: Aloone ]

Aloone_Jonez:

quote:Originally posted by JimmyJames: GenSTEP Founder:


As somebody who doesn't hate Windows, this comes as news to me.
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What do you like about Windows?

I like the folowing things about Windows:

[*] The hardware support, if you buy a digital camera, scanner or printer it usually comes with  windows drivers.  
[*] Troubleshooting, if you fuckup the registry or install the wrong device driver, it's easy to revert back to the previous configuration. This is especially useful for graphics drivers, if you set your monitor to a mode it doesn't like you wait for 15 seconds and it reverts back to the previous mode.
[*] Easy installation/uninstallation of software, I know this is easy in Linux too, but standards are a problem in Linux as there are so many different package standards, if a package is unavailable for the distro you use, you have to do a manual install. This is also a major fuckup factor with Windows as things don't always uninstall cleanly, and there is often lots of shit left behind to slow your system down. I have a feeling that this is spyware, but friends of mine have said that it's just due to incompetent programmers.
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MrBunnyFace:
I myself use windows, like most everyone else.  
This is mostly due to the fact that I have not
yet learned how to use Linux, though I am
currently learning. I do hate windows. I hate it
because I really spend more time fixing it than
actually using it. There's just too much to do. I
am not a downloader, so I rarely have virus
problems and such, but it's the constant updating
of windows and tweaking of settings that consumes
most of my computer time. And it doesn't matter
who's machine I'm on, it's always the same. I
have no answers. Like most in these forums I'm
just bitching. I can only hope that more and more
of us will veer away from windows and start using
other Operating systems so that MAYBE one day
Microsoft won't have such a hold on this market.

On a personal note, I'm glad to finally find a
place to bitch about this and recieve feedback
from intelligent people(excluding me) that feel
the same way.

[ July 17, 2004: Message edited by: MrBunnyFace ]

[ July 17, 2004: Message edited by: MrBunnyFace ]

hm_murdock:
You're absolutely right, we should paint the barn orange.

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