My guess is you have never worked in tech support, or have not worked on enough different computers. I cannot recall the number of different hardware and software packages I've installed for computers running Windows because the user of the computer could not make them work, but it is in the thousands.
People think Windows is easy to use because Microsoft spends a lot of money marketing that image. From all of my experiance, Apple wins the ease of use game everytime, they control much of the hardware and the software, but poor marketing choices have held them back.
I guess the point of what im trying to say here is, all this hardware and software does not "Just Work", there are millions of hours and billions of dollars of tech support spent each year to make it happen.
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Fixing contrived problems is not productive.
A world with out windows would be a much stuffier place.
This brings new meaning to Windows goes *down* on me.
My guess is you have never worked in tech support, or have not worked on enough different computers. I cannot recall the number of different hardware and software packages I've installed for computers running Windows because the user of the computer could not make them work, but it is in the thousands.
People think Windows is easy to use because Microsoft spends a lot of money marketing that image. From all of my experiance, Apple wins the ease of use game everytime, they control much of the hardware and the software, but poor marketing choices have held them back.
I guess the point of what im trying to say here is, all this hardware and software does not "Just Work", there are millions of hours and billions of dollars of tech support spent each year to make it happen.