🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:06:18 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

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>>>Thanks for trolling by.
>>>If you can't run Win2k, it's your problem. The rest of the
>>>world does so fine- in FACT, 2K is still the dominant
>>>business OS, not XP.
>>
>>A couple months ago you were claiming most businesses run win98.
>>That's a really fast migration ;)
>
>
>WOW you really are sore about not being right all the time.
>Did you REALLY want all your past posts recanted and argued
>all over again?  Sure seems that way.  This is borderline
>troll activity.
>
>Note that I wrote most one time, dominant the other.  For
>example, the pond is mostly small fish but the larger fish
>are dominant.

Who is sore exactly?  Yeah I'm very sore you've contradicted yourself
on a similar nonsensical tirade/thread about M$ EOL.

Notice in your fip-flop that:

a. I didn't make a direct quote so it's silly to hair-split / word
parse.  But if you _are_ going to word parse than you should instead
be saying something clear like "Most _very_small_ businesses still use
Win98 while most _larger_ ones use Win2k" if that's what you're trying
to say.

b. Your distinction doesn't make any sense.   That's an unintelligible
perversion of the meaning and context of "dominance" in an attempt to
generate a response that _looks_ like a rebuttal.  In fact your
statements were trying to claim _total_ market share of currently used
business desktops _in_general not "power" or "influence" of larger
businesses or whatever you think you mean.

Don't take it out on me if you can't keep track of what you've been
making up as you go along & not writing clearly.

>Even so, the last survey I had seen did put win98 boxes as
>the majority.

How many years ago was this exactly?  Survey of what/who/where
exactly?

>  I cannot assume Win2K becomes a majority
>until a subsequent survey finds it to be the case.

So you have no basis to make a claim of Win2k's dominance.  Boy you
just stepped in it again BAD!

And because you haven't seen a survey done on an OS that's been on the
market over 5 years it doesn't exist?  By the time surveys in your
world are done the numbers are already skewed by obsolescence/
decommissioning.

>  I have
>seen both used extensively but one thing is for certain,
>that WinXP usage is still in the minority.  At least, it WAS
>at that time, 

"At that time" ??

When exactly was the last time you saw business' computers?  Your
qualifications for making _current_ generalizations are pretty much
out the window right now.

>a level of support for 2K has now been dropped
>and it is expected that will cause a few more businesses to
>migrate to XP.  Will it then be a majority?  How long would
>it take?  I won't guess but rather waiting for some evidence
>of it.

All you're doing _is_ guessing.  The problem is drawing
generalizations from limited anecdotal experience from the past & some
alleged past survey you won't cite (both which contradict each other),
while ignoring normal life cycles which are a necessary part of
mainstream business, and thinking that all that makes a good basis for
a macro-generalization of _today_.

Sheeh.  No wonder you're so defensive.