When Apple has a 90% market penetration, the era will be over.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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"John Slade" <im@idiot.com> wrote in message
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> "David Dickinson" <eveningstar@die-spammer-die.mvps.org> wrote:
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>> I gotta tell ya', I've made a lot of money from using and supporting
>> Microsoft products over the last 28 years. But now, I'm afraid.
>>
>> The Vista user interface has many, many counter-intuitive features,
>> including some that through creating confusion will cause disasters,
>> including loss of data. In fact, Explorer windows may show inaccurate
>> information. Vista doesn't play well with other machines on a network.
>> Administering it can be tedious and time-consuming when compared to
>> previous
>> OS's. A lot of stuff either doesn't work the way you expect or just
>> doesn't
>> work at all. It's been dumbed down in some areas so much that
>> administrators can't do some things they need to do (such as customized
>> backups), while some other "features" have been made so complicated that
>> the
>> average user is going to have to ask for help where none was needed
>> before.
>> And while it certainly does have a pretty interface, it's a hardware hog
>> with lousy performance even in the most stripped-down configuration.
>> People
>> can buy tremendous hardware thinking that they're going to get the
>> machine
>> of their dreams, only to find out that it's slower than molasses in
>> January
>> (for instance, will DX10 destroy DirectX's place in the market?).
>>
>> And it's buggy, and has been hacked on live TV (with promises from eEye
>> of
>> more to come).
>>
>> Nevertheless, I'm going to have to support Vista. But my clients will be
>> calling more about computer problems than about finding solutions for
>> their
>> business operations. And they'll be unhappy about it.
>>
>> I realize that hardware vendors eventually will come up with truly
>> Vista-compatible drivers, third-parties will offer software to overcome
>> many
>> of Vista's user-interface and configurability weaknesses, and eventually
>> Microsoft will issue hotfixes and service packs to fix the bugs and
>> security
>> holes. And I have no doubt that near-future hardware advances eventually
>> will make up for some of Vista's performance problems.
>>
>> But I'm convinced that the next couple of years are not going to be fun,
>> and
>> I even wonder if we'll be using Vista's Explorer UI at all by then.
>>
>> I just hope I never resort to saying "Look, don't blame me. I didn't
>> write
>> this thing." I'll probably be better off if I recommend to my clients
>> that
>> they avoid getting Vista for a couple of years.[/color]
>
> good assessment.
>
> yes, people "in the know" are simply switching over to the Mac.
>
> i think a lot of people thought Microsoft would really put some effort
> into Vista, but they decided not to.
>
> apple now has the best operating system and everyone knows it. they also
> make the cheapest high end hardware, so it's an easy choice now that
> Macs can run windows (if needed) with no speed penalty.
>
> the Microsoft era is basically over.
>
> [url]http://www.apple.com/hardware[/url]
> [url]http://www.apple.com/software[/url]
>
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