[Ti] [OT] what to say to Windows users:

[Tarik]

On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:16  pm, b wrote:

> Everything? Obviously?
>
> Like:
>

well said, flipper.

Most PC users I know don't use PC's because they think they are 
actually better (I only know a couple of these -- and they are odd 
little cookies) but because they fall into one of 3 camps:

1) It's what everyone else uses and/or  they don't want to risk any 
incompatibility ( for example did you know that the VBA scripting 
language is not truly cross platform as MS claims)

2) They are gamers and want the latest greatest games and also to be 
able to readily upgrade/mod their machine to make use of the latest 
hardware

3) They are cheap. (most fall in this camp) You can explain to be 
people about total cost of ownership until you are blue in the face, 
but for some people cash spent is the most important factor. It's a 
psychological thing... (I'm talking about middle class people in 
developed service economies here by the way).

as far as i am concerned Apple are doing the right thing at the moment, 
chipping away with better and better software, most of which is bundled 
free. Most PC users will admit that MS have done anything even vaguely 
innovative or useful in their OS since the first release of Windows 
2000 (I still run 2k in preference to XP) . Can't wait to see that 
distributed compile feature working in 10.3 :)

--
Tarik

PS I recently built a new PC for reasons 1 and 2 as well as to support 
my windows slave clients.

PPS making this thread OT again.