From: /m 

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 11:31:31 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"/m"  wrote in message
>news:p9ol829tfpugvmju2mumtred49svq6lrc8{at}4ax.com...
>
>> The Vista equipment rater gave my kit a "1".  It seems
to weigh heavily
>> on gamers.  The hardware got mid-twos and mid-threes in everything,
>> expect a 1 in game controller.  That "1" seems to carry the day.
>
>I'll use an abacus before I use vista. I don't need a computer that is
>programmed by people with no respect for the users.
>
>You know.. It used to be that Apple owned the desktop back in the days of
>the ][, then they went whole hog for the Mac crap (jobs and his frell the
>users they don't know anything attitude), it was a pig, it was slow, it
>lacked features that knowledgable users needed. In the end that move sunk
>apple and they lost the market to the PC.
>
>Microsoft is following that exact same path today, they are making the same
>mistake of now ignoring the knowledgable user in favor of newbies and pig
>feature sets (the reason your hardware is rated so highly). It was for a
>time that MS had Win9x for the masses and NT for the serious users, that led
>to MS gaining even more market share and their current standing in the
>market place.
>
>Ignoring those same leading users, the people who everyone else asks for
>advice, is a bad move and is going to result in Windows becoming a minority
>set of the OS used on desktops. I don't think any other OS is going to get
>as dominant as windows has been, I think windows is going to lose control
>and the desktop is going to fragment as a result. This will probably become
>obvious to everyone in 2-4 years time.

I wish that I could find something in your comment to disagree with, but I
cannot. (though I don't think Apple's loss of the desktop was quite as
simplistic as you paint it to be.)

 /m

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