Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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That is not true for several reasons, but the point that really hurts you is that I can put together my own machines. I buy cases, motherboards, graphics cards, RAM and blank hard disks. I download Linux liveCD .iso files, and burn bootable CDROMS. From there I can put together excellent-performance Linux machines at very low costs, and I can use them.
The problem is that most people have no chance to do the same. They must buy their computers from a retail outlet. Where a move to Linux is entirely feasible for me, it is not for the majority of people simply because it is not offered to them (presented to them) as an option.
Windows software does rot. The registry gets unmanageable after a while as it fills with cruft.
However, your point is basically OK. What you say is not wrong. It is however far more sensible, as a society, for us simply to store our data in an open, well documented, platform-independant, future-proof format that can be deconstructed and used by any future systems. That way we can just archive the data, and we don't have to keep the platforms in order to manipulate the data.