On 29 October 2011 10:35, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > This whole discussion is missing an important fact, where Windows > is losing for years now: It's porn. > > Just imagine the average porn user, which now shifted its usage > to the web. Well, in average it needs three months to get such a > Windows PC infected by something, which cannot be eradicted and > is not intended to be eradicted, because the Windows developers > don't grasp what they have produced. So the only solution is to > reinstall the whole thing, which means the hassle of trying to > find the Windows CD, the registration key, updating everything > for hours, shouting at the computer for having to reboot the 10th > time in row, just to get a small update into the system and in all > the hassle of avoiding bloat, by clicking the right boxes in in- > stallation routines, which you have to go through and to see how > bad a copy routine can be implemented, you forget time and space. > (Maybe that's the religious element of Windows.) In the end you > waste at least two days for the artificial installation and click- > ing gangbangs a Windows PC needs. Of course this can be automated, > but who wants to go through the hassle of installing the Microsoft > pimp software? Harddrive cloning? Activation problems? Reinstall- > ation issues? After three months all of this again? No way! > > Well, and there is Linux and Ubuntu as respective »get something > up for the end user« distribution. You simply install it and can > automate it using regular fast migration methods, like rsync, > disc cloning, backups etc., which you use regulary in your daily > non-Windows world. But then you don't really need to do this. > The Ubuntu installations the »average users« around me are using > didn't break during porn usage for more than two years. > > Concluding from this double-blind multi-centric clinical study > (n=4): Windows is going to die, if they don't change their market > strategy. They are keeping themselves in their niche of so called > »professional software«, but this won't last for long. The natural > paradigm of the free porn market won't wait for Microsoft.
Thanks for this excellent remark. Cheers, Anselm
