Microsoft's principal products running on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers
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The quality of grammar in the article pretty much spoke to me of the validity of the content: "Today, that company, Microsoft, has more than 125,000 employees, a sprawling 8-million-square-foot campus outside Seattle and its principal products running on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers. It's the third-most valuable company in the world, behind only oil giant Exxon Mobil and longtime competitor Apple." What is it with all those commas and hyphenated "8-million-square-foot" mumbo jumbo? The actual citation is from clickety[^]. The quote is about personal computers and not all computers." I am starting to think that CNET may be the Daily mail(British paper for those of limited intellect) of the IT world when it comes to journalism.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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One thing we think about is observing the gibberish you used to post. Use real words. Capitalization and spelling are also appreciated. This place isn't for posting in text formats, and despite all the squawking, not for tweet-style, either. In other words, use words!
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"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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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 ;)
Nicholas Marty wrote:
When I have to consider which OS I want, I factor many things in.
Yeah, same list as I was thought in school, but that is not how the world works. There's no testing on stability, no stats to compare. If it runs Microsoft Office, then it is accepted. Bing, welcome Windows.
Nicholas Marty wrote:
Is it providing a similiar User Interface that I'm already used to, so I will feel at home soon enough?
Yeah, it saves money if you don't have to re-educate the users, saves time, frustration - but marketing will tell you that no-one will buy it if it looks "old". See Win8 and its start-menu. See Vista and Aero.
Nicholas Marty wrote:
You could conclude, that being the market-leader is a part of their quality as well ;)
No, I'll conclude that having a monopoly-position nearly guarantees a monopoly-position. Unless you're an IBM or Netscape, in which case even that is not enough to survive.
Nicholas Marty wrote:
And I think a completely bug-free OS IS possible.
Only in theory. You'd need a bigger budget than NASA (already clear on that point it would not be commercial), and you would still not be able to prove that it does not contain bugs.
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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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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.
Oh my, thanks a lot for reminding me that I must revisit Hades and make a deal with the landlord in order to figure out the bare essential distributable libraries needed for CR XI through field definitions. This is not a programming question, merely an expression of disgust! :) Edit: There is a reason I reference the CrystalRuntime.Application object as 'crAp'! :laugh:
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I am informed that this is the year of the Linux Desktop.
I think the Apple Watch is dumb, but I can all but guarantee it will sell more copies than the installed base of Linux on the Desktop within a month of its release.
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I am informed that this is the year of the Linux Desktop.
It's been the year of the Linux desktop for me for the past 6 years; everytime I produce a reasonably straight doze machine somebody buys it from me. Most recently I bombed a W7 machine from ebay back to the stone age, with only 70G of free space(from 250 G disk) it was obviously a mule full of paedo stuff or simply another terrible case of windows bloat. Sold it at a profit. To nuns. In Yorkshire. You have been warned. :wtf:
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The quality of grammar in the article pretty much spoke to me of the validity of the content: "Today, that company, Microsoft, has more than 125,000 employees, a sprawling 8-million-square-foot campus outside Seattle and its principal products running on nearly 90 percent of the world's computers. It's the third-most valuable company in the world, behind only oil giant Exxon Mobil and longtime competitor Apple." What is it with all those commas and hyphenated "8-million-square-foot" mumbo jumbo? The actual citation is from clickety[^]. The quote is about personal computers and not all computers." I am starting to think that CNET may be the Daily mail(British paper for those of limited intellect) of the IT world when it comes to journalism.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Now now Guy, the Daily Moron carries all the news the other papers carry, just next to reams of shite about how 'hot' 12 Centigrade is, and Kim Arsedashian reports. Sometimes they even correct their grammar. Thing is, you have to pay for all the rest; they're better, but not money better. ;)
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Yes. Windows 11. Caveat: The future may not have as many 'computers' as mobile devices.
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And what happens in future? Will there be any OS to compete with Windows and then change the scenario!!
Not anytime soon. Windows/Office and other MS products continue to offer great value for the cost, are feature-rich, and quite challenging to compete against. I used to hate Windows 95 for giving me a blue screen and costing me hours of homework effort but looking back at it now...over all the years I've used Microsoft products, they've done an amazing job. If the Surface Pro 4 turns out to be as impressive as I'm expecting, I'll be buying yet another Windows machine. There is nothing wrong with that, the tech giants are competing in various new frontiers (search, mobile, office software, etc) and the consumers are winning!!
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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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We don't believe it.
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
Exactly. Windows has been consistently less than 70% of visitors on all my websites for the last 10 years, dropping to about 50% in one year. It has picked up a bit recently. So am I lead to believe that the vast majority of non-windows users run Microsoft office, when its still not available for Linux, and wasn't available for many year on Apples OSes. What other MS software could fill the remainder? It doesn't make sense.