On Monday 08 January 2007 16:34, Tony Alfrey wrote: > E. Hoon Shim wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise > > prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put > > into the product to prevent piracy. The high price makes piracy even > > more attractive and increases their efforts. > > > > Still don't quite understand why more home users haven't made the > > migration. > > Because home users > a) work with what they have to deal with at the office, which inevitably > implements the latest M$ toxicity, > b) buy computers with M$ installed and > c) need to communicate with other M$ toxicity and don't understand the > difference between an application and an operating system. > > My puzzlement is why the home user buys a cheap box, yet pays for the > hassle and expense of M$ upgrades, yet doesn't buy a Mac up-front, which > IMHO is a near-perfect unix platform, at least as far as the user > interface is concerned. > > IMHO if corporate environments can be released from the M$ addiction, > the problem is solved. We may see the lead being taken in Europe and > China.
By Job! I think you've hit every nail on the head! Break the M$ market lock-in and watch it crumble (at least to a fair extent) like the house of cards it is. There DRM schema will have a large amount of the soon to be negative outlook on M$ products. They don't seem to learn from others experiences. The RIAA affiliates tried to implement DRM protections one fairly large pop-music artist in England. The end-result was (luckily in GB you can actually return music CD's to the store) that they refused to play on various cd players (old models with differing chipsets) and PC's in general. This led to a mass revolt by patrons of said artists and said artist sued and won release from her contract as a result. M$' DRM schema is going to have a similar problem. Just wait until people make a home DVD and give it to Grandma and she can use it, or when a corporate suit uses his fav spreadsheet program (non-M$) and Powerpoint clone program to make a presentation for the board room and it refuses to play - ya! that'll go over really well. The days of the CIO/CTO opting carte blanche for anything M$ in his/her budget may be getting seriously curtailed. Not to mention that well over 3/4 of the PC's on corp desktops won't run Vista (and Dell, HP, etc are hoping this translates to new/large contracts). Nope - look past the M$ hyperbole and the future is quite far from certain on the M$ front. And that's just here in the U.S. Europe and the rest of the world has far less tolerance for M$ BS IMHO. Cheers, Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe!
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