| Remember the times when programs were running in DOS instead of Windows, back the times when Linux wasn't born? The average user wasn't sitting in front of Windoze, he wasn't afraid of lo-rez and few colors. Then came Windoze95, and it killed the command line.
Then came Linux, and it was the rebirth of the command line. But it didn't have anything what could *really* be called a GUI, what the average user was sooo used to now. So it was called the "hacker system", and those who used it were automatically "computer criminals". After all, who else would use it when all "decent things" could be done with Windoze?
Now we have KDE, Gnome, lot's of different distributions ranging from puristic and a little cryptic to "You're using Windoze? Doens't matter, even you can handle this.". But what happens? Nothing. Why? There's still a command line, and noone really cares for hiding it and making it hard to access.
That's why Windows is still a world-dominating OS. People became used to being fed with bright colors and high resolution, and now they want to be kept dumb. They fear new things. They fear the need of becoming intelligent and having to learn some new things (the need isn't really there anyway, but that's what good ol' big brother Micro$oft tell's em. And they were using Windoze for years, so M$ must be right. Right?).
Yeez, that really doesn't sound as it was supposed to be... Anyway, that's what I think is why Micro$oft is still in buisseness and selling things. |
