Microsoft's principal products running on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers
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What? Again? :omg:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I thought it was called optimism :laugh:
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians. Help end the violence EAT BACON
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What? Again? :omg:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Every year is the year of the Linux Desktop. I find your lack of faith disturbing..
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Every year is the year of the Linux Desktop. I find your lack of faith disturbing..
Sascha Lefévre wrote:
I find your lack of faith disturbing..
invisible pink unicorns?
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I am informed that this is the year of the Linux Desktop.
Somehow I saw it coming... :laugh:
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Sascha Lefévre wrote:
I find your lack of faith disturbing..
invisible pink unicorns?
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HobbyProggy wrote:
invisible pink unicorns?
That's the desktop-theme of the latest Linux distro
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And what happens in future? Will there be any OS to compete with Windows and then change the scenario!!
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And what happens in future? Will there be any OS to compete with Windows and then change the scenario!!
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You are talking about Personal Computers, but the time are changing. Younger people have mostly a smartphone or tablet and on these devices is Android or iOS most of the times. Do you know Kodak?
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
KarstenK wrote:
Do you know Kodak?
Watzdat?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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It's not only betting on the market-leader. You stay market-leader by providing better quality than your competitors. And quality in regards to operating systems includes more than just system stability. You have to consider the number of available software (and it's quality), backwards compatibility and so on as well. You can write a completely bug-free OS if you want and you won't sell a copy of it unless your customers are actually able to run the software they need on it. Of course software companies tend to write for operating system of the market-leader first, which in turn makes it kinda difficult for other OS publishers.
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This is the wrong place for such questions. We don't have any psychics or crystal balls here. Only Crystal Reports sometimes.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.CDP1802 wrote:
Only Crystal Reports sometimes.
Yeah, well, that's not psychic - that's sorcery or black magic! Nobody ever knows if it works - and how! And nobody wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole... :doh:
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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And what happens in future? Will there be any OS to compete with Windows and then change the scenario!!
Member 9441074 wrote:
Microsoft's principal products running on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers
Citation required... I would say from anecdotal evidence that the percentage is smaller... apparently...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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HobbyProggy wrote:
invisible pink unicorns?
That's the desktop-theme of the latest Linux distro
The twitter handle for the EF team at MS is, yes, @efmagicunicorns. :laugh:
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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You are talking about Personal Computers, but the time are changing. Younger people have mostly a smartphone or tablet and on these devices is Android or iOS most of the times. Do you know Kodak?
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
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Member 9441074 wrote:
Microsoft's principal products running on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers
Citation required... I would say from anecdotal evidence that the percentage is smaller... apparently...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It's not only betting on the market-leader. You stay market-leader by providing better quality than your competitors. And quality in regards to operating systems includes more than just system stability. You have to consider the number of available software (and it's quality), backwards compatibility and so on as well. You can write a completely bug-free OS if you want and you won't sell a copy of it unless your customers are actually able to run the software they need on it. Of course software companies tend to write for operating system of the market-leader first, which in turn makes it kinda difficult for other OS publishers.
Nicholas Marty wrote:
You have to consider the number of available software (and it's quality), backwards compatibility and so on as well.
That is way they will stay market-leader. If said manager has to look for application-software, he'll end up with Microsoft again. That means that most documentation and tutorials are aimed at, you guessed it, Microsoft products. It is one of the advantages of having a monopoly.
Nicholas Marty wrote:
You can write a completely bug-free OS
No, that is impossible. No software-vendor will have NASA's resources, and even they make mistakes that cost lives. So, unless you can beat NASA on a lower budget, you won't have bug-free software.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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You are talking about Personal Computers, but the time are changing. Younger people have mostly a smartphone or tablet and on these devices is Android or iOS most of the times. Do you know Kodak?
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
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Since Windows 8 I prefer not to think about Mickeysoft.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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And what happens in future? Will there be any OS to compete with Windows and then change the scenario!!
http://xkcd.com/1508/[^] :rolleyes:
I'd rather be phishing!
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Nicholas Marty wrote:
You have to consider the number of available software (and it's quality), backwards compatibility and so on as well.
That is way they will stay market-leader. If said manager has to look for application-software, he'll end up with Microsoft again. That means that most documentation and tutorials are aimed at, you guessed it, Microsoft products. It is one of the advantages of having a monopoly.
Nicholas Marty wrote:
You can write a completely bug-free OS
No, that is impossible. No software-vendor will have NASA's resources, and even they make mistakes that cost lives. So, unless you can beat NASA on a lower budget, you won't have bug-free software.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
Yeah, my criticism was more aimed at the "regardless of quality" bit of your first response. I'm just saying quality involves a lot of things (and is probably also pretty subjective). When I have to consider which OS I want, I factor many things in. All of which contribute to the "quality": - Does it run on my hardware? (And is there driver support from the hardware vendors for this OS?) - Is it reasonably stable? (I can live with an occasional software or system crash, as long as it doesn't occur too often) - Can it run programs X, Y and Z that I already use and like to continue use? - Is it providing a similiar User Interface that I'm already used to, so I will feel at home soon enough? - Are there known and open security flaws, and if there are, will they be fixed? and so on. I want the OS that suits my needs best (or in other words "has in my opinion the highest quality"). You could conclude, that being the market-leader is a part of their quality as well ;)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
No, that is impossible.
In a hypotetical sense of course :laugh: And I think a completely bug-free OS IS possible. It just might not do anything (useful) at all ;)
