After using and supporting XP for the last four years or so, I'd have to
admit, it doesn't BSOD as much as earlier versions of Windows - in fact,
even when I did see a BSOD it was hardware related (bad memory, failing
hard drive, etc). Anyway, I think the point of the OP was that 98% of
Windows users could use XP for the next 5 or 10 years if they had to and
not even blink (as long as their AV works and their OS updates keep
coming in) - there's no point in upgrading to Vista, because Vista
doesn't have anything additional to offer the web-surfing,
word-processing, mp3-playing, general pop.
My biggest problem with OS X is lack of UI feedback. Most of the time if
an application crashes, it just goes away - ugly error messages are
hidden from the end-users, which both confuses the user and makes
support that much more of a pain. Does hiding the error messages make
the OS appear more stable to the end-user? I don't know. Probably. I
just wish there was a way to at least go into System Prefs and check a
box somewhere that would change that behavior.
I've pretty much gotten to the point where I hate Windows and OS X
equally, but for entirely different reasons. When it comes to user
support, I find Windows easier to troubleshoot (the Event Viewer beats
the pants off the 'Console' and googling for Windows errors yields
solutions, whereas googling for Mac-related problems tends to lead me to
propaganda) but of course OS X has a much more intuitive interface,
cutting down on the "How do I" issues. So generally, in my office I let
the end-users pick their poison. I won't support Vista until vendors
like Dell no longer offer XP pre-installed, which I have a feeling will
be years from now.
- Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 9:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content
protection,hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer"
world.
I'd have to say you are talking about mac-users there!
"2% of people are perhaps fortunate enough to have it work all
the time. Blessed are thosethat have never seen a blue screen and/or
never sworn at their computer." With of course the exception that I had
sworn at my computer at least a few times (mostly for the lack of
dual-releases on games and/or game developement tools). I only wish
apple spent as much time making developement suites (if they made any at
all) as easy to understand as they did the workings of their os.
-E
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection,
hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.
That seems a gross over statement. Should be "XP works sometimes
for 98% of the people that use it".
--- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:mike.mikemiller%40gmail.com> > wrote:
>XP works just fine for 98% of the people out there.
> Miller
>
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