On Tuesday 13 February 2007 09:16, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: > I saw a posting last night from a user in Germany. All new PC's in Germany > are shipped with Vista (He obviously only talks of buyers buying PC's with > Windows).
1.) not true (I subscribe Germany's foremost computer magazine (c't), and most of the ads are still with XP 2) most of the computers in Germany are actually custiom built - people buy components and build them themselves, or they go to a shop with a list of components and have them made to order. Even our hospital I worked in had every single computer they bought made to specs by a small Munich IT company (guess who owned it ;-) ) This 2) was true when I left more than a decade ago, and as I found our when I visited Germany this christmas, it still holds true. Off-the-shelf-computers appear to attract onkly a minority of ignorant customers over there. Needless to say, nearly all custom built computers do not come with any operating system - Linux is *very* popular in Germany, and so is BSD Unix, Solaris, and a variety of exotic operating systems, plus oldies like OS/2, QNX, OS/9 and many more. Not the same monoculture as here. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
