8 Mar
2001
8 Mar
'01
10:43 p.m.
Julian Richardson skrev:
What have MS
ever done to make computers easier? Mimic Apple et
al? When you put it like that, yes, I suppose. They just
have better marketing
tactics (note I'm not saying I *like* those tactics!)
That isn't making computers easier, that's doing whatever Apple does. It's
like saying that Mitsubishi have made cars safer simply because they have
learned some tricks from Volvo. Copycats don't deserve credit for what they
do.
Following a
general trend has never been my definition of actively
working or
>contributing towards a goal. Ahh, it's an embraced and extended following though
;-)
In what way?
Thing is, for the average person who is new to
computers (and maybe a little
wary of them) and doesn't want to actually learn anything about the tools
they're using, give them a bad system - like Windows - and a good one, like
Linux say, and they're going to get along easier with the windows box and
achieve their goal (whatever it may be) sooner. They won't necessarily have
the best solution (likely won't in fact) but they will have something that
satisfies them to the extent of their knowledge - which for most people is
good enough it seems.
Linux isn't a good system, particularly not for the unexperienced user.
Microsoft didn't have the vision or the initiative,
no, but sadly they're
the company who is dominant in the current market. I really do hope that
changes (not least because I really don't get along with the idea of one
faceless entity controlling everything - don't even get me started on the UK
and Europe! :-P
What about the UK and Europe? Is it something about Acorn computers?
And why is everyone so afraid of giving the newbie a Mac?
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