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On 5/30/2011 8:26 AM, John B. Matthews wrote:
> In article<irvoj3$ifa$1@news.albasani.net>, BGB<cr88192@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> But windows still run on, what, may be 9[0]% of the PC's in
>>> the world?
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
>>>
>>> "As of October 2009, Windows had approximately 91% of the market
>>> share of the client operating systems for usage on the
>>> Internet.[3][4][5]"
>
> Interestingly, [3][4][5] were examined in October 2009 to get the 91%
> figure. The 2011 numbers have all fallen--some more, some less.
>

because, slowly but surely, Windows becomes more sucky WRT its 
competition...

yes, Win95 and 98 sucked... at least NT4 and Win2K were decent enough at 
the time.

XP was solidly good, as at least there were no major issues.

Vista was like "WTF, this sucks...".
Windows 7 is like "well, at least it is not Vista.".

but, it is a problem:
use Windows 7, have computer that generally performs like crap (vs XP) 
and often behaves weirdly.
or use WinXP and have lots of newer apps not actually work.


sadly, Linux has not entirely caught up to Windows WRT making an OS 
which is solidly good either... but, yeah, modern Linux would probably 
have wiped the floor with Win98, but peoples' expectations are a little 
higher now.


so, alas...