Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 11:32:26 05/27/02
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On May 27, 2002 at 12:06:29, Christophe Theron wrote: > >People will not switch for the pleasure of switching. Agreed. >People will switch because they want to save money. Windows is becoming >extremely expensive. Are you sure they will? Why do you think is Windows becoming more expensive? Because "everyone has it" and applications like M$ Office are the de facto standard. That's why. >Windows XP Home Edition here costs approximately 230€, or $200. If I want to >install Windows XP Home Edition on all my computers (because I want all my >computers to run the same OS for simplicity reasons), I have to pay 2530€, or >$2200. > >That's absolutely impossible. I will not pay that money to Microsoft. >Companies are thinking along the same lines. I wish they were. Sadly I don't see it happening. >>The Apple OS never tried to look like / behave like Windows. Yeah, they don't >>have that much market share, but at least "they're different", which also >>attracts people. (hint: Steve Jobs is quite happy with his market share, he's >>not really trying to get 50% or something, believe me ;) And I'm positive that >>they will still exist in 5 years - of course with similar market share. *smiles* > > >Come on! Microsoft had to invest nig money in Apple several years ago to help >them. They did it because if Apple and its OS disappears Microsoft would be in a >too obvious position of monopoly (well actually they have be found to be, so >that did not save them). :) True :) I still think Apple will exist in 5 years. Maybe M$ has to pay them each time they get to small. :) >From reports I have seen, there is no satisfying solution to this problem. >Sooner or later you will get a document which does not display/print well and >that's going to be a problem. > >I hope it will get better, but you can count on Microsoft to add very nasty >quirks in their documents format so it gets very difficult to clone MSOffice. Agreed 100%. And that's the reason that you will (have to) buy the next version of Windows and the next version of M$ Office again. What will you do if the next version of Windows or M$ Office will be 400$? You say you don't want/can't spend that much money. But if you don't do exactly that, you won't be able to read the Word documents you receive from your customers or partners and you will be out of business. Lindows looks promising, but, I wouldn't be surprised if M$ will find a way to screw Lindows users. AFAIK, OS/2 also could run Windows applications and was overall the better system back then. (Maybe the situation with OS/2 is different than Lindows, please correct me if I'm wrong) Do you see a way out of this vicious circle? I don't. Sargon PS. If you're no longer interested in discussing this subject (with me), please let me know. :)
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