From: "Geo" 

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message news:44059117$1{at}w3....

> (B) If you make an OS which has got all the tickboxes ticked & is rock
> solid etc. etc.etc. then....how do you go about finding new tickboxes
> for the next version & indeed selling them to potential customers as
> tickboxes?

Well you start by asking all your customers what else they want, if you
don't get enough suggestions you work on making it more efficient, faster,
smaller, cheaper, more compatible, more standards, like the hardware guys
do.

> Add to that the problem that in the rich parts of the world, the market
> is mature & basically most sales are to young people or are replacements
>  & in poorer/developing parts of the world.....well the WTO etc at the
> US gov's behest have made "piracy" more difficult & as a
result most
> developing places appear to be headed to linux.

Yeah, that was a really stupid move. What they should do if they want the
OS to be disposable like the hardware is make it cheaper. As computers have
gone down in price they have become disposable, many times it's easier or
cheaper to buy a whole new system than to upgrade one.

Geo.

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