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To: Steve Lee who wrote (44813)	8/30/2001 4:39:55 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I agree. One of the reasons why DEC died and IBM was nearly brought down is that they both dismissed the PC as a "toy computer" for too long. This is the essence of how "disruptive technology" works--it is "clearly inferior" until suddenly it isn't and its too late for incumbents to react. Those who blithely dismiss Windows as a "toy OS, not suitable for 'serious' business use" risk making the same error. A lot of people who unthinkingly criticize Windows are basing their views on non-current (sometimes distantly so) versions of the OS. Windows 2000 is a very good OS and Windows XP is better still. The essence of the Wintel threat was never that any particular generation was perfect but rather the trajectory that it was following and the near-infinite financial and technical resources that are behind it.

To: Steve Lee who wrote (44813)	8/30/2001 5:02:11 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 64865

Sorry, but Windows is NOT "easy to use," except perhaps on a superficial level. You recognize as much when you point out that one must be careful when selecting hardware and use only "carefully sourced software," and when you say that "people think they are capable of commissioning systems" when they are not. JMHO. Charles Tutt (TM)

To: Steve Lee who wrote (44813)	8/30/2001 5:17:10 PM
From: Bob Duncan	Respond to of 64865

Steve, Another point I would add is it is EASY to write bad apps on Windows, hard to do so in Unix because of the learning curve. I have seen Visual Basic applications that are single threaded running on SERVERS at client locations! Contrast that with Linux/Unix where about everything is C++ and coded by experts. That is frankly MSFT's problem, it is easier to be an NT admin OR NT developer, so you have a quality problem with the people. (Which, unfortunately, is then blamed on NT)