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Hi there.
Actually if you analyse the engineering the Titanic would have done MUCH BETTER to crash head first on to the 'berg rather than side swipe it. Even if the ship had been "holed" sinking time would have taken much longer --if it sank at all -- and people could have survived by standing on the 'berg rather than have ZERO chance of survival when thrown into water barely above 0 deg. So maybe the analogy with the Titanic isn't a good one -- Ms might be trying to crash head first into the 'berg.
(At the speed the ship was going and the rate at which it was sinking they were far too far away from the 'berg to turn around and sail back to it to use it as a life raft although I don't think that was ever mentioned as a possibility. It was foggy and they had no Radar of course so they probably wouldn't have been able to find it even if someone wanted to go back to it again).
Your statistics are also a little bit dubious -- just because someone hasn't upgraded doesn't in any shape or form mean they've "Rejected" the new OS. If you have a perfectly good capable running machine why go through all the hassle of upgrading to a new OS.
People on these Forums will try new gear and software out because they are presumably much more interested in computers than the average person out there -- If I'm basically doing email, surfing the web, maybe a spread sheet or two, a bit of word processing, maybe some multi-media playing (Music / videos / DVD's etc) and possibly even a power point application and I'm running W7 why should I even THINK of changing what runs quite nicely thankyou. That IMO would tend to be the attitude of a load of people out there now --they really don't care what OS is on their system --they just want to turn it on and expect it to work.
People are much more "Financially challenged" these days and things like new computers or upgrading to a new version of Windows come low on their priorities. This isn't a case of "Rejecting" the new OS per se but just a real appraisal of their financial priorities at the moment.
Some people I know who in the past would use a computer for nearly everything hardly use them at all - preferring tablets / ipads / smart phones and the only time they might use a computer is when they are at work and even here not everybody actually uses a computer at work.
We shall see what happens when the economy improves -- as it will --it always does (might take a while though) in spite of the Politicians and Banks.
In 3 or 4 years again the whole computing scene will be very different from todays -- that's for sure.
Cheers
jimbo
Last edited by jimbo45; 01 Mar 2013 at 18:23.