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To: ShawTaylor
Its a fact. Given that Windows overwhelmingly dominates computer installations on the planet, it follows to reason that most of the jobs for computer installation, configuration, programming, application software writing, sales, marketing etc will be on the Windows platform.

For one, if it wasn't for the Windows platform, it would be for another platform. But the fallacy comes in the admin jobs. Microsoft products take more people to administer them than others, a LOT more. Remember the articles about the arrival of Vista boosting such jobs? To think that such extra, needless jobs are a good thing is to invoke the broken window fallacy.

71 posted on 03/01/2007 9:16:09 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
"For one, if it wasn't for the Windows platform, it would be for another platform"

But it IS the Windows platform, because Window dominates computer installations on the planet by far, ad Apple doesn't.

"But the fallacy comes in the admin jobs"

Most jobs created by Windows are not in admin jobs We have millions of sales marketing, programming, application development jobs, teaching, training etc jobs created by Windows, not to talk of the hundreds of millions that use Microsoft Office on Windows and make living that way.

"Microsoft products take more people to administer them than others, a LOT more. "

Nonsense.
In fact Microsoft products like Word, Excel, Access, SQL Server, exchange Wrver are amongst the best, if not the best on the planet, and Windows Server trumps Linux in costs of administration easy:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/facts/default.mspx
You are still talking nonsense.
73 posted on 03/01/2007 9:28:06 AM PST by ShawTaylor
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