Re: NT5 [you may know it as Windows 2000]

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

> Because most people happily bimble on using their products, because
they
> are tied to the software that has been developed around them (homeseer
etc
> etc as you have pointed out earlier this afternoon).

But HS would not have been developed as a Windows app if Windows was not
the
prevailing OS that 90% of people used.

> Secondly, because product quality is almost completely unrelated to
market
> share.

True.  There a many other factors, price for example.   Although with Linux
being "free" and "better" it's amazing it's not on 90%
of PCs :-)

> And that's why MS does so well.  So few people are prepared to put any
> effort into getting something better.  And that's fine, if they're
happy
> with their lot, I don't care what OS they use for their accounts, as
long
> as it doesn't foul up my transactions!

So when Linux becomes as "idiot proof" as Windows will it start
to bite into
its sales???

M.




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