[thechat] Now what!

[Erika Meyer]

Why Microsoft?

'Tis the little puzzley piece logo... you know how the little puzzle 
pieces fit together... if you get lots of MS applications it's like 
that.  One fits with the other, but they are just enough broken so 
they don't fit with anything else.

And cheap computers.. when the big tech explosion was happening, you 
could get (or put together) a good PC for $4-600 while you were 
looking at ... I don't know... 2k for a Mac.  & Linux was/is for 
geeks.

The iMac changed much... but a lot of people were already hooked into 
the Windows thing.

At one time, there were many OS's.  My dad bought a C/PM machine over 
an Apple in 1982 because he believed C/PM would be the business 
machine of the future.  A few months later, Microsoft was selling the 
C/PM copycat DOS on IBM machines & C/PM was on its way out.

5 years ago so many people were saying farewell to Apple.  So certain 
were they, that all other operating systems would just fade away... 
that Microsoft would be everything to everyone...

<de>Gott sei dank</de> that didn't happen and <de>um Gottes 
willen</de> I don't think it will.

unity + diversity

Erika

>At 05:44 AM 1/9/2002, G typed these words:
>
>>Someone tell me why people still use Windows again?
>
>Familiarity. Inertia.
>
>Shout if you want me to explain in detail ;)
>
>M
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>Madhu Menon
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>Blog: http://madman.weblogs.com

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