I understand the inclination of anyone who purchased something, eg a winxp computer, to want to feel good about the value and recommend it to others, who if their experience is similar, enhances a sense of wisdom.
Also those who have gone to the trouble to learn how to use something cheap and/or free. I dont mind hearing of the experience of either. I dont expect to ever have the money to spend on a new cutting edge system, and having already spent my money on a technical education, am inclined to go the latter route. But a lot of minds are focused on other things, and cannot do that. Given my experience over the last three decades of watching the business, I expect windoz will be history. I expected the Mac to be history as well back in the early 80's because I saw how much more competitive the pricing was for the open ISA standard. I was wrong that time because I never imagined that Microsoft would be so arrogant and so stupid as to muscle out all competition. Without that competition, the PC platform suffered, and this allowed Apple to remain in the market. But now that competition does exist in BSD/Linux, and in a few more years the competition between the distros to write installation scripts will result in a product that installs easier than windoz, runs the gui interface in a familiar way, and has a vastly lower price. Whether I like windoz, or whether I liked Apple is not the point; my personal taste is irrellevant. What I see is the natural result of market forces and relatively trivial levels of software innovation. There is also what is called 'market sentiment', in this case the fact that the image of macho power in computers has been the 'server', and this has lead to the egoism of wanting a 'server' on the personal desktop. However, the fact is that these servers have been increasingly running Linux, not windoz, and some notorious disasters with windoz on servers is accellerating that. So, if the macho geek wants to impress everyone, he dont use winxp, he puts a 'server' running Linux on his desk. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
