Look Out Macintosh!

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Sat Sep 14 14:25:44 EDT 2002


Isn't it sad that macroslop has dominated the gui os market for IBM compatibles for only 7 years or so, and people are acting as if it had been the major os for the last 200 years?
Greg


On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:27:29PM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi. Well, I certainly feel if any operating system can remove or cut into
> Microsoft's share it will be Linux, but it will take a while.
> 
> It's all about conditioning. People for years have grown use to Microsoft's
> pile of junk, and it takes a while to remove previous ideas and opinions. It
> also takes other companies willingness to port existing apps to Linux. Apps
> such as Adobe's Photo Sweit, MS Office, and so on are conciddred Windows
> flag ship applications and it depends on a willingness to switch to other
> software.
> 
> 
> 
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