Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Nov 2008 20:39 UTC
Back in 1983, 25 years ago, the world was quite different. The market for the home computer - still a fairly new market - was wide open, but Apple was about to make a major splash with its Macintosh. It was also the year in which a company from Redmond first introduced its "Windows" operating system. What is this Windows you speak of?
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You are of right. But the majority of the users today don't have real experience with a multitude of operating systems and just some flavor of Windows to do basic stuff at home or to play games. I still think that for those users Windows is perfectly OK. In a professional environment of course, Windows sucks ass - which is also good, because Microsoft's fails in this environment were always a license to print money. It-Managers who are willing to use Windows on a corporate network level are usually also willing to pay through the nose to get the most basic things done. Like auditing, pen testing, monitoring - and of course replacing one or more mission critical systems with Debian Linux.
In these 25 years another funny thing happened: Users got so used to Windows, especially the younger ones, that today they think that computers are supposed to be exactly like that. There is a lack of sense for quality on the consumer market for operating systems.
Edited 2008-11-12 07:48 UTC