The people love Windows XP 10147

population's I find it interesting that the COLA folk fall back on this explanation, i.e. the consumer is non-discriminating due to lack of brains or information or both, and yet there is no plan ever butterted to correct the condition. If it is hopeless to try, then it would be wiser to consider how Windows might be improved so as to overcome whatever deficiencies that it is said to have. You can extend Windows almost endlessly with your own system DLLs and services of course. Why waste a lot of time fooling with something like linux that no one will ever see? been today. People seem to forget that OS-2 was introduced to the market at a list price of $1195 and it needed 4Mb of RAM. Regan punished the Japanese for dumping memory at the same time and managed to run RAM prices up to about $1-K which made OS-2 a $5K proposition to a company interested in moving up from PCDOS. Not too many takers at that level and they went with Windows at the $50 intro price and it worked in the original 640K memory that everyone had then. Of course it flopped.

DEC went off the rails when they started catering to the unix lovers and quit feeding their VMS customers sweet nothings. If you have to switch to unix, it was said, why not just get a Sun? Apple may be heading in the same direction. If their OS is freeBSD and their hardware is Intel, what are they going to hang their hat on to claim any edge? The Macintoshers are eager to believe they are superior and willing to pay a little more to prove it, but they have had their "special" OS and their "special" hardware to reinforce that decision and that is going away. The emperor's new clothes all over again.

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