[Rant] Microsoft to Exit Mac Market If Sales Continue to Lag | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Jul-2002 23:29 GMT by Paul Smith | 71 comments View flat View list |
If a serious software publisher plans to leave a platform with a huge userbase (surely we're talking in the hundreds of thousands for MacOSX?), then what chance does OS4 have of making it with promotion figures of about 600? (for forum)
Link to OSNews.com article
If nothing else, this proves what what many have been saying for the past 12 months (and openly ridiculed for). The days of binding your software to custom hardware are over.
Surely it is time that the people in charge of AmigaOS acknowledged that the non-mainsteam hardware route was a mistake. I'd bet that a similar promotion scheme for a version of AmigaOS that ran on the majority of the world's computers would have brought a much larger, and possibly commercially viable userbase. I'd also wager that the numbers sold would have been so, that it would have brought more revenue than the current scheme of selling hardware with it.
This is not intended as flamebait. I hope to provoke a discussion on the future of AmigaOS, rather than a flame-fest.
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Posted by NoctReX on 19-Jul-2002 10:18 GMT | In reply to Comment 44 (Coolio): QUOTE
Leaving a *nix box running as a server is hardly a good example of stability. I could run an MS-DOS version of BIND in a MS-DOS and it would run forever. Why not put your Linux distro to the test... Fire up XWindows and Konquerer, or Mozilla, or whatever half assed web browser you use, and do some serious browsing on script heavy webpages. Oh, do listen to some streaming media while you're at it. What's this? You had to reboot? Golly gee willickers! But, I thought it was stable!
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Well, i`m using Mandrake Linux 8.2...
have fired up KDE 3.0.2, Konqueror (file browsing), Mozilla 1.1a (surfing and email), Xine (playing a DVD), XMMS (mp3 player WITH OpenGL visualisation running), makeing SQL queries to mySQL, testing my new webpage through mozilla, Apache and PHP, and it ALL works fine....every day...
they not even crash...
oh, forgot, sometimes i play the cute OpenGL Tuxracer game together with the other apps running :)
oh, that`s not all...during this, i compiled and installed successfully OpenOffice Org 1.0, which i just downloaded.
works like a charm!
maybe u have overclocked your machine? then it`ll be unstable if u overdo it...
when i did my FSB at 150 (heheh, too much) it booted, but i couldn`t even open mozilla...
so now it`s back to the good old 143 OC standard ;o)
there`s maybe some types or configurations of pc`s which just are not stable with an OS. have encountered a lot of em :)
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