by stefcep2 on 2008/12/26 5:51:55
the encouraging thing this time around is that long-term PC users themselves are having enough of their hardware being seriously hobbled by Vista. The PC market is maturing, a large slice of it is onto the second or third OS, and many are far from happy that it takes them longer to do things they did before on new hardware that SHOULD BE far faster. If MS "does another Vista", I hope that it might be the tipping point where people just say " Forget it, MS. I'll stick to my XP machine until its circuits burn out, and no money for you this year or the next or the next." History tells us no empire has lasted forever.
Very well put, stefcep2 !! The sad fact is, however, is that the Wintel cartel has nearly a stranglehold on the PC market. I have heard employees at computer stores (read: PC stores) ouright lie to get someone to buy a PC versus a Mac, or Linux machine (what's a MEEGA
) There may be hope, tho, some Linux distros are getting almost idiot-proof... typing this on my Xandros (based on Debian) machine now :-D
Worst thing that ever happened on this machine, my modem stopped working once, I just re-ran the 'Connection Wizard', after 5 mins., all was well. And it's not too shabby for a 633Mhz Celeron w/ 128 MB RAM ... (But Xandros' Control Center says it's a 631MhZ Celeron :-? ... Oh well...
