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On 5/16/13 10:09 AM, JustWaitAFrekinMinute wrote:
On 5/16/2013 10:00 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 16 May 2013 07:29:08 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

On 5/16/2013 5:16 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 2013 20:50:10 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 15 May 2013 12:23:58 -0400, wrote:

Most of his life was devoted to crushing any competition and
maintaining his monopoly.

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And he was very good at that. Very very good. Greedy? Absolutely,
but that was the driving force that made WINDOWS the most popular
operating system of all time, and made PC technology and the internet
accessible by virtually everyone regardlesss of technical expertise.

No small accomplishment. It required brilliant vision, dedicated
leadership and focus, not to mention a huge amount of work.

Unfortunately it was like the phone company. Not much real innovation
came out of Redmond Washington. If there was a good idea from a
competitor that Gates liked, he simply bought that company. If he
didn't like it, he crushed the company. We ended up with the bloated
OS we have today that tries to be all things to all people and does
not really address anyone's actual needs. Like all monopolies, they
dominate because they are virtually the only game in town.

Between Windoze and Androis, who's "needs" are not being met?

I don't know much about android but PC users might want an OS that
will run a week or two without a reboot, either from a crash or an
update. They would also like one with a stable API so you don't need
to update your OS for the next big thing, usually requiring a new
machine.. Windoze is the last vestige of planned obsolescence

But still, inconvenient sure.. I mean, a watch chip can run a rocket
ship after all... But "who's needs are not being met"?

Users who don't like glutware, or dealing with a non-English speaking
clerk who has been taught that all tech support consists of reading off
a script. The few times I have called Apple for tech support, I've
gotten competent people who speak English as well as I do and know how
to work their way through a support tree, and who are customer oriented.