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If there's any obstacle out there preventing ANYONE from doing precisely what Bill Gates has accomplished, providing THE WORLD with a PC-based operating system THAT WORKS better than anything else out there (you wanna' challenge the consumer usage numbers?), state what that obstacle is NOW Standards. This isn't a computer newsgroup, so I'll stop at pointing out: 1: Several OSs work better than Windows. Windows is just sort-of adequate. Adequate is good enough for Americans. 2: Consumer "acceptance" has squat to do with quality. It has to do with marketing and compatitiblity. Why are they still making VOR airways? Why are they still using NDB approaches? Why can I file GPS direct but always get rounted from here to Kingdom Come? By now we should be free of airways and such... but we're not. Why? Well, several reasons, but one big one is standards. The new stuff HAS TO work with the existing system. You can invent any newfangled thing you want, but it will never get adopted in this airspace if it can't coexist. That's why Mac can read Windows disks. But like VORs, Windows doesn't have to read Mac disks. Jose -- (for Email, make the obvious changes in my address) |
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