Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 2nd Mar 2006 22:58 UTC
"With six separate versions of Windows Vista on the way, Microsoft has a marketing challenge on its hands. How will the company properly inform users as to which versions support which features? One part of the plan is now becoming clear: all four 'consumer' versions of the OS will be available to users even after installation. How? They'll all be available for 'instant online upgrade' once Vista is installed."
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RE[7]: Windows Bashing
by archiesteel on Sun 5th Mar 2006 06:44
in reply to "RE[6]: Windows Bashing"
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I'm afraid you're not making much sense with your second sentence. Did you mean "No, 90% of users don't have the same needs" or "Yes, 90% of users have the same needs"?
Yes, we have no bananas...
In any case I did not ignore the point. It is useless to refer to "average end users" when arguing because: a) it is a gross generalization
b) it ignores natural distinctions among users (office users, home users, hobbyists, education uses, etc.)
c) without doing market research we can't just claim to know what this ill-defined "majority of users" wants/needs
But don't let that get in the way of you expressing your strong pro-Microsoft bias...
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2005-07-02
All right, insults! Thanks for proving once more that you are incapable of rational debate, and that you will substitute personal attacks for the arguments that you clearly cannot come up with.
"End users" is a generalization, and generalizations are by definition highly flawed. There's no such thing as a typical "end user", each of them are different, and have different needs.
That said, if I was to go to the mall and check what are the computing needs of people, probably 90% of them would say: "e-mail, web surfing, listen to music, watch movies and write simple documents on a word processor/spreadsheet." In other words, all things that can be done on Linux as easily and effortlessly as on Windows or Mac OSX.
But keep coming with the insults, it makes modding you down such a satisfying experience...