"It's one minute after midnight on Dec, 1, 1999. With 31 days left until the new century kicks in and the second 1,000 years in recorded history begins, Americans are wary enough to take few dollars out of their bank accounts, just in case."
(Quoted on The Billings Gazette Y2K: Truth or SCARE The sky may not fall, but Y2K is one big thunderhead January 10, 1999. )
Geeze, this kind of brainless drivel from the Amrican press makes it an embarrassment to be an American! I mean, let's all ignore that fact the western recorded history is over 2,00 years old, and that Jewish history goes even further back than that, who but a total idiot could forget that the Chinese have over 4,000 years of recorded history.
Of course this twit can't seem to undrstand that the mellennium does not end until 31 DEC 2000, nor 31 DEC 1999.
BeOS? Great OS, easy to use, but eraly in developement cycle and has limited hardware support and commercial grade apps.
OS/2? Give me a break. OS/2 is dead, save for hardcorp believers (no offense to them).
Linux? Free, good hardware support, apps out the yang, but can you imagine the Average Joe trying to use Linux? And X-Windows is _STILL_ a pig, even on today's hardware.
Solaris? See Linux.
GEM? Hah! That corpse has been cold for a long time.
You want to jaunt down to Computer City and buy a computer? You buy Microsoft.
You want to play commercial games other than DOOM and Quake? You buy MicroSoft.
You want to be able to take work home with you? You buy MicroSoft.
Where's the damned choice? I've been investigating migrating to an alternate OS for years. I've tried OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS, and a few others. I've tried to get away from MicroSoft but I can't. My employer uses MicroSoft and when I take work home I need to use MS apps. The games I play (which is the primary use my primary computer gets) all run on Windows 9x (some run on NT but not many).
Most average consumers do not even know there _IS_ and alternative (and God help them if they try to buy a system from a retail outfit without Windows already on it).
Let us not forget that many OEMs can't sell anything other than MicroSoft OS or they face losing their price breaks. Do you think they're going to screw up that revenue stream?
When you can walk into a retail store and buy a PC with any OS you want (and Macs don't count (Apple is damn near dead as it is) THEN I'll give your point a little consideration.
I see. They are going to use the: "We are not a monopoly because there are these thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of programmers and users out there that hate us so much that will not only LEARN Unix, they'll write their own!"
Hahahahaha!
That's like claiming your cat is not a predator because in eats grass once in a while.
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(Quoted on The Billings Gazette Y2K: Truth or SCARE The sky may not fall, but Y2K is one big thunderhead January 10, 1999. )
Geeze, this kind of brainless drivel from the Amrican press makes it an embarrassment to be an American! I mean, let's all ignore that fact the western recorded history is over 2,00 years old, and that Jewish history goes even further back than that, who but a total idiot could forget that the Chinese have over 4,000 years of recorded history.
Of course this twit can't seem to undrstand that the mellennium does not end until 31 DEC 2000, nor 31 DEC 1999.
Buy what!?
BeOS? Great OS, easy to use, but eraly in developement cycle and has limited hardware support and commercial grade apps.
OS/2? Give me a break. OS/2 is dead, save for hardcorp believers (no offense to them).
Linux? Free, good hardware support, apps out the yang, but can you imagine the Average Joe trying to use Linux? And X-Windows is _STILL_ a pig, even on today's hardware.
Solaris? See Linux.
GEM? Hah! That corpse has been cold for a long time.
You want to jaunt down to Computer City and buy a computer? You buy Microsoft.
You want to play commercial games other than DOOM and Quake? You buy MicroSoft.
You want to be able to take work home with you? You buy MicroSoft.
Where's the damned choice? I've been investigating migrating to an alternate OS for years. I've tried OS/2, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, BeOS, and a few others. I've tried to get away from MicroSoft but I can't. My employer uses MicroSoft and when I take work home I need to use MS apps. The games I play (which is the primary use my primary computer gets) all run on Windows 9x (some run on NT but not many).
Most average consumers do not even know there _IS_ and alternative (and God help them if they try to buy a system from a retail outfit without Windows already on it).
Let us not forget that many OEMs can't sell anything other than MicroSoft OS or they face losing their price breaks. Do you think they're going to screw up that revenue stream?
When you can walk into a retail store and buy a PC with any OS you want (and Macs don't count (Apple is damn near dead as it is) THEN I'll give your point a little consideration.
I see. They are going to use the: "We are not a monopoly because there are these thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of programmers and users out there that hate us so much that will not only LEARN Unix, they'll write their own!"
Hahahahaha!
That's like claiming your cat is not a predator because in eats grass once in a while.
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