Subj : Re: Computers
To   : StormTrooper
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Aug 16 2024 09:31:29

  Re: Re: Computers
  By: StormTrooper to Mhansel739 on Fri Aug 16 2024 03:09 pm

 St> The other thing is, for better or worse Windoze remains the lowest common
 St> denominator, so its more than likely going to do what some 95% of
 St> consumers are going to ask of it, and they won't look any further.

In the 90s, I was hopeful that OS/2 might somehow overtake Windows, but I think there was a certain point in the early-mid 90s that once Windows became common enough, it already had enough momentum to make it domiant enough that other operating systems would have a hard time gaining traction.

Later, I tried BeOS and I really liked it, but it was the late 90s when BeOS was ported to PCs, and I think it was already too late by then.  I thought BeOS was really user-friendly, looked nice, and worked well though..  It would have been cool to see BeOS as a standard desktop OS.
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