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Mr. Luddite

On 2/3/2014 2:49 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:49:45 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 2/3/14, 11:46 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:04:24 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january

Microsoft has not given their business users any compelling reason to
switch.
If your mission is not significantly changing, why should you change
your hardware and software?
99% of all real business applications ran just fine on Windows 3.1 on
a 396. If you are just doing bookkeeping, inventory and point of sale,
you don't need that much computing power.
All of these flashy graphics do not actually add much to the average
business man's operation.
Hardware is pretty stagnant these days so I am not really sure why
they need a different OS.

Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and its
price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to put
Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste
the money.

The OS is not free, it is just bundled into the overpriced hardware.
IBM did the same thing with the System 360, all the software was free
including on site support ... until LBJ sued them over it.

Apple gets away with it because they are still a small player.

Most people do not get the retail version of windows anyway. They get
it bundled with the software and it is about $35-40 that way based on
what you can get a bare (or linux) system for.

I don't even pay that. When you get an off lease machine the extra
cost is negligible and you could reinstall that OS on a brand new
machine if you wanted to. You just need the sticker ... or just the
numbers.
I am not even sure Microsoft is checking for duplicate XP
installations these days. I do have a good W-7 number if I wanted to
play with it but I have XP on that machine now.
I have still not seen a compelling need to go to 7 or 8.

I am not impressed with the idea that just being newer is always
better.

How about these?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpoX6Mh4kLw