David Boles: >> Let's cut the hyperbole. If Windows is really as bad as you say it is why >> does 90% of the world use it? ;-) Ed Greshko: > Because it comes for "free" on any PC purchase? Ed's answer, plus the marketing that promotes is would be the main reason, in my opinion (simply because it's there, and they're told to use it). If I was being a smartarse, I'd give the "a million flies can't be wrong" comment to David about Windows... I sort of agree with Felix. Many people have a system in a diabolical state. Sometimes they recognise that, but ignore it. Sometimes they have no clue that their crappy-acting PC doesn't have to behave that way. It's somewhat of a rarity that they care about it. I really hate being asked to fix up someone's PC, they're often in a shocking state before they'll ask fo help. You've got to chase up drivers for hardware that you've never heard of before. You have to extract passwords, or get services to mail then to you before fixing up their system (where you might lose them in the fixup). Those that do have Windows systems in a good state usually have to work at it, or it's maintained for them by someone else. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
