Desktop Relevance

[jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org (Jack Coats)]

Actually, with windows, there was IBM's TopView for a while.  Both had
issues,
M$ won.  M$ has taken most other 'desktops' out of the market by
'internalizing'
their desktop with an 'integrated system' (merging os and desktop functions
into one).

There is only one reason for any product to be 'on top'. ... Whether we like
it or not,
customers rule in the end.  And as the old saying goes, there is the Golden
Rule:
The one with the gold makes the rule.  So customers have the gold, they make
the
rules, in the long term.  The good thing is if someone comes up with a
better mousetrap
(function, price, ease of use, etc, ever how the tradeoffs go), customers
are fickle and will change.

Now, how do we get any non-M$ product to be a better mousetrap?

IHS ... Jack


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:58 PM, David Kramer <david-8uUts6sDVDvs2Lz0fTdYFQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> [snip]
> ... And there you have it.  This is, and always has been, a part of the
> UNIX/Linux adoption problem.  With Windows, there's Windows.

...