Microsoft wants you to "Get the Facts Straight"

[Fred Roller]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 2009/9/9 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>>
>>     
>>> From? Win7 is pretty but big and slow - it's not really any quicker
>>> than Vista, as tests show, it just /feels/ quicker and PCs are faster
>>> now than in 2007.
>>>       
>> Indeed. They've fixed the worst interface problems and made the
>> interface lower latency, so it feels responsive - but mostly,
>> computers have caught up with Vista rather than Vista being made
>> faster. And there's hardware drivers now.
>>
>> And it's fine, you know. It works well enough. Anyone who's used KDE 4
>> will find it familiar, a sort of cheap copy.
>>     
>
> Yes, indeed.
>
> And that is a worrying thing. Win7 is indeed "good enough". Nothing
> radical, but it "leverages" (*shudder*) the power of more modern PCs
> to make things a bit easier for noobs, a bit more colourful and
> pretty, and to satisfy the idiots who think that comparisons between
> Windows, Mac and Linux are all about "chrome" and visual pizzazz.
>
> Which is going to make it harder for Mac and Linux to compete, and
> that is a bad thing.
>
>   
Plastic beads my friend, plastic beads.

On the bright side, the repair market will remain strong :/

...On a serious note.  Linux is gaining ground, slowly, but gaining.  
IMHO if businesses converted just to the desktops for the security then 
the employees would be relieved NOT to have to pirate software from work 
to do work at home.  If memory serves Office got so big because people 
needed to do work at home and "borrowed" the install disks, etc. etc.

Kids so far are easy.  I have noticed that putting a GUI in front of the 
pre-teens doesn't require M$.  So long as they have tux paint, can play 
games online (peguins, barbie, etc.), a few local games, which linux has 
tons of that are age appropriate; these kids haven't cared who is 
driving the software.  When they grow up, linux is familar and preferred.

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