Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:01:32 -0800 From: Dan Piponi <dan@mvfx.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: windows debate Message-ID: <19991217220132.A90564@c35728-b.almda1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912180115250.13403-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 01:23:25AM %2B0000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912180115250.13403-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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> He argues that > gates was brilliant for his marketing tactics that locked people into > windows, and that he gave people what they wanted: easy-to-use > computers. Windows is not easy to use. For those who didn't grow up using computers they are phenomenally difficult to use. Few people that I know that are older than me (in my thirties somewhere) are able to install and troubleshoot a PC themselves to the point where they can, say, browse the web and send email (my wife's father just went for two weeks without being able to connect to his ISP. He didn't realise that when he typed in his password and *'s came up instead of the keys he was typing that it wasn't because the keyboard was faulty. He had to type in his password because Windows likes to spontaneously forget ISP passwords from time to time). Compare that with using a telephone, microwave or even a Nintendo 64. Those younger than me seem to have grown up with computers and hence they are adept with Windows *despite* how difficult it is. -- Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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