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Authored by: kuroshima on Saturday, November 17 2012 @ 04:27 PM EST |
It's something I've been noting and sharing with my
aquaintances for a while. Extend that backwards:
Dos based Windows
pre 3.11? no idea, I'm too young for them, and I'm not sure
they were actually released in my country (Spain).
3.11? good
95? bad
98? eventually it was decent (sort of)
ME? Bad
NT based Windows
Pre 4.0? no idea, I'm too young for them.
4.0? bad (at least it was quite frustrating. Pre XP WinNT
was not targeted towards the consumer anyway AFAIK, instead
being targeted towards businesses. Correct me if I'm wrong)
XP? Good
Vista? Bad
7? Good
8? Bad
No experience with 2k based windows
If you consider only the customer targeted OSes, you have an
unbroken good/bad progression from 3.11 to 8...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: symbolset on Saturday, November 17 2012 @ 05:12 PM EST |
Yes, Microsoft Windows is now on only 40 percent of Personal Computers
shipped, because smartphones and smart tablet are personal computers.
That is
the difference. The monopoly has been broken. From there the end is usually
swift.
Microsoft can no longer demand partner loyalty on pain of death, as
the partners have somewhere else to go. They haven't offered partner
profitability in a very long time. What they can still do is drive their
partners away faster, and that's what they're doing. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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