I've had another thought. Just what is MS doing? The only thing good about Windows XP is that it wasn't a later version of Windows. It was produced, because Windows ME/2000 had legal problems. Win Vista was release without being able to interface with XP, and pretty much all the default settings were deliberately chosen to cause difficulty for the end user. Windows 7 was just a cleaned up version of Vista. Now MS comes out with Win 8.1, where they completely change the interface to something that doesn't make sense, and take out a few tools.
The entire world depends on this single company to produce an OS to run their computers, and yet this single company goes off the deep end every three years with something that can't be used. This consistent production of unusable Operating Systems demands an alternative. The problem is that there is no alternative. Linux cannot run copyrighted software, Mac is overpriced, and neither are being used to develop high end 3d applications. This means that there are three year intervals where one has to buy an outdated OS with their new computer.
Companies depend on their 50 year old secretaries being able to use a new computer, after the old one burns up a motherboard. Companies depend on Million dollar equipment being able to interface with the $500 computer. A computer is something so basic and so common that any business person should be able to pick one up at any office supply store on the way to a job, but no. All the brick and mortar stores are selling Win 8 machines, and Win 8 is unusable. You can but Win 7 Machines on-line, but they are not in stores. This is because MS seems to have a slight itch where their large scale customers are concerned, and not a hang for individuals or small companies. This should concern all businesses as every few years, the new MS OS does not integrate with the existing computer network.
This represents an obvious and, now with Win 8, predictable loss of production due to MS releases new OS's ready or not. One way large companies can deal with this is by purchasing in bulk, whenever MS puts out a functional OS. The other way would be to invest in an alternative. Linux is not for the faint of heart. To make it work, one needs to be connected with Linux people, and every company that want out of the MS dependence would have to pay big bucks to have people that knew what they were doing to integrate computers that don't have a chain of licenses on their software. On top of that, businesses use MS Office. Law offices used to use Word Perfect, but pretty much, your resume' needs to be in Office or Plain Text format. Only when businesses start taking documents in Open Office formats can we even imagine a real alternative to MS.
That's the key. Open Office needs to spread, long before anyone is going to fool with Linux. The applications come first. This is why I can't deal with new versions of Windows. Since MS Office is the standard of the business world, that standard needs to be changed.
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