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"ppsssttt... here's some money.. now go in and buy up all... so we can show higher sales then....."
"ppsssttt... here's some money.. now go in and buy up all... so we can show higher sales then....."
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If the result form all this (constructive) criticism on MS and competition from Apple is that we (consumers) get a better product, I am not complaining.
As we say in Holland "high trees catch a lot of wind" :)
The past has shown that when left to its own devices MS will not always make decisions that benefit end consumers. People are all excited with the new W7, and rightly so, but they tend to forget the history very fast.
In the end both OS's have their own merits and faults. I just say: the more choice the better!
Last edited by Boris; 19 Oct 2009 at 07:26.
The reality in the software and IT business is that more choices is NOT better. More choices drive prices up because developers have to support more platforms. Companies that allow multiple platforms have higher support costs and that drives the price of their goods up. When everyone screamed that a Microsoft monopoly would rape the public and charge astronomical prices, the exact opposite was true. The cost of most Microsoft products has dramatically gone down. I'm not advocating a monopoly nor am I saying that competition is bad but we are now exiting what will soon become known as the golden years of computing. Decisions were easy, training was easy, and users were generally happy. Look for difficult times ahead with XP shops, Win7 shops, Linux shops, Mac shops, and more. It won't be "better" because of more choices.
I'm not sure if any of yall have been part of a startup or not, but if you noticed one of the so called analysts, Gartner. Everyone who's dealt with a startup knows they are a analyst whore. They are paid to say what will reflect nicely on a company.
A journalist for the Syracuse Post Standard wrote an article for the Sunday paper discussing the merits of Windows 7. The article started out fine, but then the writer [Al Fasoldt] compared the Apple Snow Leopard prices to Windows 7 prices. The Snow Leopard upgrade is nothing more than a service pack. When Microsoft releases their service packs, they give them out for free. How about a little journalistic honesty?
PCworld has been nothing more than apple fanboys for a few years now. Its not even worth reading.
Apple have been dampening things for Windows for quite a few years. I don't see where it has gotten them very far in terms of the marketplace.
They cater to a very niche segment of the marketplace, and that is where they will stay for the foreseeable future, unless they remove their insane markups.
The way I see it, if I were buying into Snow Leopard, I would first need to buy a $1550 Intel Mac-Book Pro, and if it came with Leopard, go out and buy Snow Leopard for a further $29.
For that price, I could get a decent laptop with Win7 (Ultimate no less) and Office, and still have money left for other things.