On 10/4/05, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you the only one providing support? What about the rest of the > family?
Unfortunatly I'm not in a position to provide her all the support by myself so I have to rely on other's help sometimes, and they don't know anything about Linux (hardly much about windows). > > > > > > >My feeling is that the main reason people "prefer" Windows is first and > > >foremost because this is what they get with their computer and 99.999% > > >of the time it's also the only system they ever heard of, let alone saw or > > >(gasp) used. The original poster's situation falls under that explenation > > >because his father saw Windows (and ONLY windows) in his office and > > >wanted the same thing. > > > > You don't get Windows automatically with your computer. You buy it. > > You buy it automatically with your computer. You could get a computer without Windows (and pay about 500 NIS less) in clubmarket. But that's besides the point. > > Compatibility is a big issue. At the end of the day we're communicating > > with people, not with computers. And don't tell me Open Office is > > compatible with MS Office - it isn't. At least not 100% compatible. I > > checked. OO is good enough to open virtually any MS document I get sent (most of them in Hebrew) and to create MS documents when such a format is required by organizations. > > Right. And MS is about to move to a different format once again soon. Yet another reason not to take MS's arguments seriously. Another one - they have just admitted to ignoring user's requests for PDF support for years until the competition overtook them. --Amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
