[Ti] Windows Refund

[Massimo Marino]

On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 08:08 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium 
List wrote:

> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 10:55:30 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Ti] Windows Refund
> From: "Glenn L. Austin" <glenn at austin-home.com>
> Message-ID: <BA1CCA22.116E1%glenn at austin-home.com>
>
> on 12/11/2002 7:10 AM, Massimo Marino at Massimo_Marino at lbl.gov wrote:
>
>> This related to previous posts claiming that very few buy a computer 
>> to
>> ditch Windows... Not an hoard, granted, but not to be neglected 
>> either.
>> Practically ALL Linux users I know have ditched their Windows
>> installation. So if Linux presence makes for say 5% they also
>> contributed the same 5% to Windows market share (which IS big deal)
>
> Don't forget that Windows machines are replaced roughly twice as often 
> as
> non-Windows machines, also leading to "market share bloat."
>

Yep, I said that too in a previous post on "True Market Share": The 
average professional PC users buys new machines practically at double 
rate if not more.

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Massimo Marino
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