[NCLUG] Why Linux will win and Micro$oft will lose

John L. Bass jbass at dmsd.com
Sun Nov 11 11:35:33 MST 2001


kensharon.morris at att.net writes:
	7,) Because people have better things to
	do with their money than to constantly
	upgrade hardware for software which is 
	flawed!  Once they find out it will work
	for them (point and click mode) they will
	try it then tell their friends!

I think your argument completely lacks any basis in fact.

7 years ago there were hundreds of thousands of machines running Win3.1 in the places
I worked. Today I'm only aware of a few VERY legacy applications running Win3.1.

Ditto for Win95 5 years ago. Today there still are thousands of Win95 systems running,
down from the millions just a few years ago. By late next year it will be a substantially
smaller user base.

People upgrade hardware for reliability and performance, not to correct flawed software
which will almost certainly fail on the upgraded hardware too.

John



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