On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Chris Ovenden wrote:
On 11/8/06, Barney Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chris Ovenden wrote:
I have to disagree. According to the BBC
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/
browser_support.shtml),
only 23% of their visitors have XP SP2 installed (ie only about a
third of XP users). Even if we assume all those people accept the
IE7
upgrade (and it's likely most will), it will remain a minority
browser
for many years, if not forever. (I am skeptical about Vista ever
being
widespread, which would be the main factor in further adoption, and
still contingent upon an as-yet undetected slowdown in Firefox use.)
I have to agree with this. There was a silent consensus of panic
where I
work when I found that Microsoft were about to make IE7 a
'recommended
download'... Luckily IE7 is very well behaved over-all and I only
had to
spend a couple of ours updating all our websites for it.
However, the assertion that Microsoft's announcement meant that
everyone
will soon be using IE7 was not a reasonable one. As well as the
factors
Chris points to, we have to consider the notion of people looking to
Vista PCs as alternatives to Macs - which in the popular eye are
the new PC.
It certainly would be a very good time for Apple to loudly reduce
their notoriously high prices.
I don't want to start a holy war here and if anyone has any comments
about what I'm going to type, please feel free to e-mail me off list
to avoid such another debate on a public list that isn't appropriate
for it.
Macs cost no more then similarly equipped windows based computers.
there have been many articles about the new Mac Pro (The Tower)
actually coming in quite a bit CHEAPER then a similar windows based
alternative. But even if they did cost more up front, the TCO (Total
Cost of Ownership) is by far less when you factor in the anti-virus,
and a couple spyware/adware/malware detecters.
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