Discrimination based on OS?

[Fred Roller]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, October 16, 2009 02:16, Edward Craig wrote:
>>     
>>> Taled with Capella (Kaplan) and determined they could not accept .doc
>>> files if not created by M$ Word. Ended the converastion when we
>>> determined I am bot about to install Word (or Windows(
>>>       
>> They will not be able to tell the difference between a .doc created by MS
>> Word and a .doc created by any other software. Trust me.
>>     
>
> Works for me. I have successfully worked with "Microsoft only, we must
> insist" clients before now using Ubuntu & OpenOffice - they never even
> knew.
>
>   

Same here.  My average is better than 50% converting to Linux or Windows 
equivalent software running on MS.  The users who decide against do so 
mainly because it /looks/ too different.  I don't hold it against them, 
obviously.  Just happy they gave it a go.  The ones that stick with it 
tend to love that they have better stability and notice an increase in 
speed.

At this point it seems mostly education.  "I didn't know" seems a common 
theme.  For my experience the <12 yrs old crowd don't seem to care, they 
just ask "How do I ...", teens through college seems to hinge on being 
able to play online games and manipulate there music using what ever 
seems to be "In" (actually, this age group seems to be deeply loyal to 
what ever solution they use, MS, Mac, or Linux.)  The young 
professionals are open to new ideas so long as it works and caters to 
their getting ahead.  Mid-thirties and up seem to just want something to 
work /or/ not to change what they have become very familiar with over 
the years.  Retirement age seems to want little to do with technology as 
a whole.  This is my experience in my region so take with a grain of salt.

>> And please, write MS Word, not M$ Word. It's childish. We, Ubuntu-users,
>> must be above this. If we want to be superior, we have to behave that way.
>>     
>
> Definitely concur. "Windoze" and "Micro$oft" and so on are childish and puerile.
>
> (OK, admission. The only one I allow myself is "Micros~1". This is how
> MS's own long-file-name mangling algorithm turns "Microsoft" into an
> 8.3 letter filename, so, for instance, "Microsoft Office" becomes
> "Micros~1". Since the company's own products use it, I think it's fair
> game.
>
> But it's still very juvenile & I'd only use it in a jokey message.)
>
>   
Agreed, let the search engines find these discussions and hopefully 
enlighten MS users to their options.

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Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."