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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a4277
- From: Ian_Upright@mindlink.bc.ca (Ian Upright)
- Subject: NT Destined to Succeed??
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:04:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <19189@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- Why do I now think that OS/2 will definitely dominate the desktops in the
- future, and why NT won't be the *most* popular platform on PC's in general?
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- At times I didn't, and with all of NT's supposed capability, and Microsoft's
- marketing, I thought it could actually be a success.. NOT!
-
- Here's why:
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- Why do so called UNIX OS's (in our terms) fail? Because lack of a user
- base.. And because the user base is so low, the prices must be higher.
- Windows NT will not be affordable by most people.. (especially due to
- hardware requirements as well, but the software price is a big difference
- too.. Businesses today aren't willing to invest big bucks into software
- anymore. They now know things are changing, and getting better.. Why
- spend a grand on software, when in 3 years something better and cheaper
- comes out... We see the market taking aim to $99 software packages now..
- Software *is* getting cheaper.. )
-
- Windows NT will not be compatable, and will even have worse compatabilities
- than OS/2, thus driving the NT user base down even more..
-
- There is a lot of anti-Microsoft love/hate relationships going around with
- Microsoft. People are starting to see Microsoft as a company that looks
- out only for itself, and not for it's users.. There is a LOT of
- anti-windows feelings out there.. Many people hate windows, but only use
- it because there really wasn't a better alternative.. Now there is..
- Thus driving the Windows and the NT user base down even more..
-
- There is a lot of OS/2 advocacy out there.. If someone turned all those
- OS/2 advocacy quotes into bumper stickers, I'm sure they'd sell pretty
- fast.. Thus driving the NT user base down even more..
-
- Software developers in general, allready have more acceptance for OS/2 now
- than they do NT.. It may have been different in the past, but I think if
- you were to do a survey now, I'm sure that statement would be correct..
- A lot of good tools are coming out, or are out for OS/2 ( Digitalk,
- one of the leaders of Object Oriented programming has beefed up it's
- Smalltalk V product, and it is apparently fairly fast & efficient, as well
- as adding on other OS/2 specific development aids that aren't even available
- for any other platform!..) The editor of Compuer Language even promotes
- OS/2, and thinks it's the way of the future.. Recently, in a review of
- cross-platform development tools, many of the examples provided were
- snapshots of OS/2 screens of course.. Thats the OS that all the developers
- are seeking to develop for.. Thus driving the *software* base of NT down
- even more, thus driving the NT user base down even more..
-
- OS/2 has a 4 million user base, and there aren't really many native apps
- yet! 4 million people are looking into the future, sitting waiting for
- the native apps! Once native apps hit the market, and driver support gets
- better, watch that number double or tripple very fast.. Windows user base
- isn't really going down, it's changing to OS/2.. Especially seeing as
- the hardware requirements are close to the same.. Except for hard drive
- space... Oh, and haven't you heard? 40 meg hard drives are selling like
- hot-cakes! ;-) People are just itching to put Dos, Win 3.1, and
- one Microsoft app on thier hard drive..
-
- The hard and the truth of it is: With all these people *NOT* using NT,
- the software prices are going to be very high... Thus driving the user
- base even lower, thus driving the prices higher.. You get the picture?
-
- *PEOPLE AREN'T GOING TO BE USING NT FOR A DESKTOP PLATFORM IN THE FUTURE*
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- Server platform maybe.. Shitty ugly looking high-end workstation *MAYBE*..
- Where's it headed? Where is it's TARGET MARKET? I don't even think
- Microsoft knows.. Personally, I think NeXTstep's got a better chance..
-
- Where's OS/2 headed??? On all our desktops.. :) Thank goodness.. relief
- from Microsoft at last.. Just think!!! Imagine a popular OS without
- any Microsoft APPS!!! Doesn't that sound nice?? I wonder if Microsoft
- will be bankrupt by the end of the 90's? I wonder if Microsoft has started
- developing OS/2 apps like the said they would.. Hopefully not.. :)
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