Posted on 10/13/2006 7:22:58 AM PDT by Señor Zorro
This is enough to make me think about switching back to Apple, 17 years after I swore I wouldn't own one again.
[b]For all the bluster from the mac crowd about microsoft, apple still has like 3-4% of the market and microsoft 90%.[/b][p]
More Fiats are sold than Ferrari's. I'd rather have the Ferrari, especially if it cousts about the same as the Fiat.
BTW I'm still a Win 98 user my next bos will be a iMac. Runs well and not all th cable nightmares.
Nope, nothing wrong with my memory. In fact i'll bet my laptop hasn't crashed in three years(since I got it). My 1.5 year-old homebuilt desktop hasn't even been crashed by my demo-installing 13-year old. What did you buy, a Dell?
Oh, and you actually bought a P4? You can't be that bright...
HA! Well, I'm glad apple finally woke up to the reality that they can make a killing selling and/or marketing their os independent of their hardware.
That, and that people are too afraid (or to lazy) to try and understand how their computer actually works.
Depends on your definition of "we." :D
But marketing plays a very important role, more so even than technology. The key was to see to the corporate executives that MS was what they needed. Once they had the executives, then they went after the third party software manufacturers. At that point they had a "web" of support that no other company could beat. Even though their technology was far behind that of the others.
If the technology was what actually drove the market, Novell would still be the leader. But they couldn't market space heaters to eskimos. And that's why they're going down the tubes. Heck, how often do you have to reboot a Windows system, especially a server? At work, we've got nearly 200 Windows servers, and we schedule them to restart once a week. While most don't need it, it seems that if some of them go more than 2 weeks between reboots they get flaky. My Novell NetWare 6 server gets rebooted when I need to patch it (something I haven't needed to do in a few years), but it will be going down tomorrow: The battery in the UPS has had it, and I need to swap it out. The last time that server went down was when I shut it down during an ice storm, and my home lost power for 8 days. Something I really can't blame on the software.
Mark
The Chinese are good at making copies?
Yeah, I must be a real dummy. I only bought it when it was the top of the line.
Leave it to you Redmond types to resort to ad hominem when you can't respond with rational rebuttals.
So long, troll.
I believe there is
a BIG PLAN going on here.
No one can compete
with Microsoft now.
Apple can't. Sun can't. Google
can't. Google's just a
dot com company
with no real global structure.
Apple has zero
presence in the world
of big business. Sun has no
presence except in
the server market.
But if Apple and Sun merge
and Google buys them,
that triumvirate
would be a global presence
with a foothold in
every marketplace
Microsoft gets their cash from.
Then things might get fun!
I ould like to see some good FUN in the personal computer market....M$soft just wants to squeeze us for more money....
That i didn't know,screw that. I"m not upgrading to windows vista if those programs don't work. I"m happy with XP Media Center.
That arguemen tfalls apart becuase of the gigantic price differential between the two. Not everyone can afford a ferrari. Anyone who can buy a computer has the equal option of picking a PC or a mac.
What are the windows media player 11 restrictions exactly? I remember reading them a lon gtime ago, but i'm rusty.
Don't know ,...I'm ignoring M$Soft.....as much as possible.
I was sort of on the vista bandwagon, but i didn't know about these kernel level restirctions banning programs outright. That's just bs, screw vista. I'm sticking with XP.
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