Today I reinstalled Windows

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/9/20 Chan Chung Hang Christopher <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>:
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>> David Gerard wrote:
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>>> That would be what got me into Ubuntu. My wife played Frozen Bubble at
>>> a friend's house and asked me to put Ubuntu on her laptop so she could
>>> play it at home ...
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>> Please, please. stop propagating the myth that games is the #1 issue of
>> what puts an operating system on a home desktop.
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> I'm giving a real-life example!
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Yes I know.

> Of course, the main application she used was Firefox.
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See? But yeah, Frozen Bubble did get you to put it on in the first place 
I guess. 8-|

> What puts an operating system on a home desktop is maintaining a
> monopoly of OEMs at any cost, including paying manufacturers to use
> the old version of your operating system and paying retailers to sell
> only the machines with your operating system on them.
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You sound like Microsoft.

> It's hard to compete with that just with software excellence. In fact,
> the process of disruptive innovation suggests that "adequate" and
> "cheaper" is all that's needed. c.f. netbooks before the above process
> kicked in.
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I dunno...why are Macs making their way into households again?