Matthew Thomas wrote: > Microsoft went after the desktop OS market because that's where the > money was. And they knew that to a very large extent, the majority of > desktop customers prefer to have lots of features for little price, > rather than having usability, security, or reliability. You can rant and > pout about Windows' lack of security or reliability all you like (and I > can rant and pout about its lack of usability), but you can't change > human nature. > > That's why -- even before Microsoft started their illegal monopoly > behavior -- desktop market share was massive for Windows, mediocre for > Mac OS, and basically non-existent for OSes which concentrate on > security (like the BSDs) or reliability (like Linux). People just put up > with BSODs and the like, because the alternatives were (as far as they > were concerned) even worse. For most people, they still are.
No, people have and "put up" with Windows on their desktops because that's what the PCs came with when they bought them and they don't know how, nor do they want to know how, to change the O/S. I'd venture a guess that over 75% of PC users in the US still run the orignal O/S that came with their machine.
