On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:28 +0200, Peter wrote:
> For every corporate user there must be 1000 individual users out there.
> Even if only 10% of them are paying promptly they outnumber the
> corporate users 10:1. Making sure that something simple and inexpensive
> will keep the MoshePartitions going (like reinstalling) has been what
> has kept m$ systems going for the little user
That is an incredibly naive approach that has nothing at all to do with
reality. The original poster talked about ISVs, and why MS doesn't care
about pissing them off, but as you went on a tangent and started to talk
about OS customers, I won't bother speculating about the original issue
either.
The sad fact of the matter, is that individual users, as a mass - not as
specific individuals - are not buying operating systems. They never have
and they never will. They buy pre-installed computers. That is why Vista
is going to sell like hot buns and why Microsoft doesn't care about
users - Microsoft's customers, the people that they need to satisfy in
order to sell software, are large corporations buying bulk software
licenses (as you successfully noted), OEMs and recently - Hollywood. Not
users, never users.
That is why MS-Windows looks the way it is and behaves they way it is.
--
Oded
::..
"He looked a lot bigger when I didn't see him"
-- Jayne (Adam Baldwin), "Firefly"
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