Re: Currant Bun

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From: mike Mike Dickson
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 00:00

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In article <eyhg0vvsb1s.fsf@liddell.cstr.ed.ac.uk> spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk wrote...

> Takes me on average a month or so to get windows vaguely usable (on
> the same basis as I'd count a week for unix, ie a couple of hours
> solid at the start, then significant proportion of the rest of the
> working time twiddling.

I seriously do not think this experience is the norm. Perhaps you differ
in what you consider or define to be 'vaguely usable'. If it means the
time between bunging the OS CD in and getting Word up and running then
Joe Ordinary will do it in an hour -absolute max- with Windows.

> Maybe. There is more evidence that the application sellers are
> interested in supporting it this time around though.

Perhaps. Or perhaps they are misjudging the market, and not for the
first time. Any competition to Microsoft must be a good thing, though,
although whether -anything- can dent the ongoing juggernaut of MS
marketing is open to debate.

Mike Dickson, Black Cat Software Factory, Edinburgh, Scotland
fax 0131-665-1298 - Columnated Ruins Domino - Mellotron M400 #996

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From: mike@blackcat..demon..co..uk (Mike Dickson)
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/18
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