helo Alessio Palma -
I think you're wrong with the statemnt that:
> 90% [of the] world's computers are using micro$oft
(I suppose you mean MS Windows as "OS", and that all 90 % of PC-units
running under this).
This is a funny misconception - very much "promoted" by M$ themselves
(thus feeding ammunition to the anti-trust case) *and* believed by the
anti-M$ camp.
This data stems from just affirmations of salespeople - unchecked
numbers of "PCs sold with MS installed/license paid". However:
THERE IS NO REAL PROOF OF THIS, NEITHER OF THE FACT THAT THOSE SOLD
MACHINES INDEED RUN WITH THAT SOLD/LICENSED M$ "OS". Period.
*Real* data are hard to come by. So go the other way round:
MS suggests (I think even trombones out), "90 % of (new) PC sales = MS"
IBM says (documented in this case): "130 million PCs run with (PC-)DOS"
Of an estimated stock of around 600 million running PCs (beginning of
'99), IBM's number would mean almost 22 % "running (actually)" with DOS.
This is a bit more than the 10 % left by those claims of Microsofties.
And it doesn't even take into account "non-M$, non-DOS" OSs; though Unix
plus Linux is estimated at between 6 to 12 % of *actually* running units
in some "hi-tech" countries (Germany e.g.).
So there's something crooked with this numbers game. Dangerously
crooked for both sides - if MS proved that it has no "90%" it would
gain the anti-trust case and loose half of its Wall Street quoting
(ie., billions - poor Billygate$); if the adversaries proved that MS has
no monopoly they would loose that "big" case and wouldn't gain the share
of the MS cake they counted on.
In each case, the emperor (*and* its greedy courtspeople) would stand
there without clothes.
Morality: try to look at the real figures.<g>
Problem: both camps have interest to hide them.
So this is a really ideological battle (not a mere "propaganda" war)
where the knowledgeable "reality" itself is skewed.
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