“In between the howls of outrage over Vista’s dropped features and claims that Microsoft are screwing and disappointing their loyal customers yet again, the Mac and Linux fanboys are rubbing their hands with glee – anticipating a flood of disillusioned Windows users flocking over to the Light. Sorry guys – the disappointment is going to be yours to savour. Microsoft-bashing may still be a popular passtime [sic], and sometimes they certainly do roll over and present a nice soft target,” James Bannan writes for APC Magazine.
“But the thing to remember is that the way in which the vast majority of us use computers is the Microsoft way – Microsoft mentality, Microsoft products, Microsoft technologies,” Bannan writes. “It doesn’t matter who thought of it first, who ripped off who, whose version is better…we are the Microsoft/MSN/Hotmail generation of computer users. And these products are to computer usage what iPods are to portable music – not necessarily the best, but the natural choices. If someone’s a Windows user now, they’re going to stay a Windows user when Vista rolls out. Don’t try and fight it.”
“Windows lets you in, gets you going and gives as much or as little freedom as you want,” Bannan writes. “Windows rules now, and will rule next year too. Attack Vista all you like – it makes for amusing viewing.”
Full article here.
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This guy is sure of the defensive!
This guy bothers me but he is right. Large corporations and most PC users don’t want to know about the macs.
Too bad
Talk about settling.
in other words , it’s shit , but tough shit
The world is full of non-thinking drones. As an entrepreneur, their money will be in your bank account. You can use it to buy more Macs.
Voice of experience.
I guess APC’s copy editors and writers don’t know how to spell “pastime.” But then, looking up stuff is hard.
Ases.
They just compared Windows to an iPod.;…
How does that work?
I’m starting to wonder if, as mac users, we really WANT macs to gain a majority of the OS market share.
We might be better off as the underdog.
We’ll see won’t we . . .
“You know how Windows works – it’s familiar and comfortable. People want to play games, communicate, have fun.
They DON’T want to spend an hour trawling through techhead forums searching for that one line of code to get something installed.
Or buy into a system which looks great, feels great and has all the flexibility of titanium.
“
yes , that’w why people choose os-x , dumbass
sometimes we don’t want to spend all our time ridding our system of viruses or fending off hackers
New analogy:
Why should I get potty trained, when I can sit here and stew in my own shit all day? Sure, it stinks, it’s uncomfortable, and I have to “re-butt” 6 times a day, but it’s what I’ve always used and I find it hard to believe that fancy iPot over there makes things any better. Why, I heard that the only reason those guys don’t get diaper rash is because hardly anyone uses it. Besides, I like to be able to tweak my diaper, so that is why I use it.
They said the same about the horse and cart but when something better comes along he’ll have as much success holding it back as he would the tide.
I used to think that PC users stoically tolerated mediocrity, now I think that will also gladly accept inadequacy and incompetence. What a bunch of maroons. Enjoy your Vista experience, fellas.
That’s what everyone though about IBM terminals & main frames, MP3 players of years ago, and also the world was flat.
One-day (its happening now) people will wakeup want more than a flat world of MS! When this happens MS will have to wakeup and do better (like Apple has been forced to do better to stay alive).
WMD
This guy is anti-Apple. He places the iPod into the same class as Windows — “not necessarily the best” — I wonder what defines “the best” for him. Of course, he could be admitting that OS X is better when he said Windows is not the best. I do have to agree with him, though. Most people still and will never be able to open their mind up to alternatives to Windows. They just don’t know better alternatives exist. It is the way it is. I’ve now converted 3 families to Macs and iPods, not necessarily because I wanted them to use Macs, but because it was the better choice in the long term for them. Months and years later and they’re not going back. One person at a time.
WE are better off as the underdog indeed, the big surprises from Steve Jobs are fun to follow in a 90% Windhose office world…
I can just smell the stink of fear from this writer and folks like him. They see their “empire” crumbling before their eyes. They refuse to learn other skills, which is OK by me, just more clients and money to come my way. I am seeing more and more people who have been Microsoft dependants all their lives cross over. This must scare the poop out of the Mircosoft people.
I’m starting to hope people like him KEEP their PC’s and Windows. They deserve each other.
Like any deeply held belief (religious, moral, philosophical, technological) people believe that what THEY believe (however they came to that belief) is the right way, the best way, and can’t understand how others can’t see it the same way. Thus we have Sunnis, and Shiites, Catholics and protestants, Jews and Muslims, Macs and PCs, Republicans and Democrats, and many others. It’s the human way of duality. Ultimately these debates waste time, and are essentially negative in nearly every aspect. Perhaps the best way to go is:
Use what works for you. Don’t worry about what someone else is using (or believes) unless you have to interface with them, then concentrate on what you agree on and ignore the rest since it won’t be resolved by you anyway.
one more thing.
Windows sucks!
To some degree, he’s right. But his conclusion that we should stop fighting, though, is silly. Rome didn’t rise nor fall in a day. There is plenty of fighting yet to do.
Rome was an incredible empire and fell. Great Britian’s territory covered the globe and yet they fell. Ford once had an overwhelming percentage of the car market and yet that isn’t what it used to be. Great Dynasties in China fell which people at that time thought would never happen. The Berlin wall came down. Why is it so hard for people to think that Microsoft’s grip on the computer industry will falter at some point? Will it be OSX, Linux, or some newcomer to overthrow them? Who knows? However, to be so cocky to think that Microsoft cannot be overthrown is really a limited view on things. Perhaps some people should pick up a few history books before they start on how things will never change. The one constant in the universe is change.
Hmm. I can understand the argument that we Mac users are living in a Windows world. But Hotmail? MSN? Last I saw, Hotmail was losing market share fast to Google’s superior product, and MSN’s latest stab at search engines has never come close to Google’s veteran search engine.
So, yes, we are in a Windows world, but Microsoft is not invulnerable, and their recent failed attempts to grow into other businesses (see above, and see also Origami) suggest that Microsoft has jumped the shark.
MDN Magic Word is “end,” as in…this is the end of this post! (add your own witty rejoinder.)
Why do we want Microsoft slaves to switch to Macs? If they were stupid enough to buy into Microsoft’s filth, they deserve to suffer.
eat shit! millions of flies can’t be wrong!
Even when I was a windows user I never used MSN or Hotmail.