![]() Once the average home user realizes that they have to pay more money for the same buggy OS that they’ve been bitching about for the last few years, an begins looking at alternatives, the market for that alternative platform will quickly expand. MS may get some corporate licensing out of this, but I think they’re shooting themselves in the foot. Again, most typical home users and students don’t want to go outside their little “box”, meaning that they just want to type documents, send email, surf, etc. Hell… If people are too scared to learn a new system, you could even throw the XPDE window manager on top of Linux and set them up with some initial settings. ![]() Why? For one thing, I think that the Mac Mini is a much better PC for the average home user (after you up the memory, of course), and it’s a lot safer, from a security standpoint.Īnother reaso though is that I can fairly succesfully argue that after paying for a copy of Windows, paying me toclean up their old system, and install a new one, that they’ll be a lot better off buying a Mac Mini now, and saving the money down the road by not having to call me every 6 months or so to repair their f’d up windows-based PC.Īnd if they don’t want to switch, my alternative will be Linux. reccomending that they buy a legit copy of the OS! I know that in the future when I get these calls and people are whining about how Windows Update no longer works for them, I’ll be steering them toward Windows alternatives vs. I know of many home users who have pirated copies of Windows… How do I know this? Because I’m the one who gets the calls when they get too fed up with the slowness and bugginess of their system (typically caused by way too many virii and spyware installs). I don’t know where they get these figures, but I predict a big move away from MS in response to this stance, particularly from the average home users, who simply want to surf, send email, IM, and type up a few docs, and/or manage their finances. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the risks, though, the potential increase in sales by cracking down on piracy is hard for Microsoft to ignore. ![]()
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