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"Nobody actually likes Windows." -- Really? Maybe Vista yes, but between 95-2002 Windows was probably one of the best choices for average Joe. Mac Os, before

by ardit33 18y ago

"Nobody actually likes Windows." -- Really? Maybe Vista yes, but between 95-2002 Windows was probably one of the best choices for average Joe. Mac Os, before OS X was not that great (and expensive), plus it was available to only limited hardware, which was way behind wintel peformance wise. And there was of course Linux, and Unix versions, but really would execpt average Joe to have to manually configure drivers, and go back to the 80s and start using command line just to get their computer the net. Sure, now both Mac OS X and Linux are much better choices than Vista, but at the time Win 95/90 then 2000/XP were the best choice for general productivity.

jrockway 18y ago
"the best choice" is not equal to "good". (Have you ever had to vote in a US election?) Windows has always been buggy as hell, and has really made people wary of software in general. If Windows never crashed or did weird things, people would be a lot more comfortable with computers. Actually... Mac OS was slightly better than Windows back in the day. So really, there were better choices than Windows. Windows just happened to be popular, and it got that way by marketing and business tactics, not by software quality. (Did you ever notice how the Mac users in that era were really confident in their abilities? It's probably because the computer didn't treat them like shit. If what you do always works, you'll probably be pretty confident in your abilities. Windows barely worked, so people were afraid of computers.)
- hello_moto 18y ago
  I used Windows 95. It didn't crash as often as people said it would. Why would I bought Mac OS back then? Any reason other than it doesn't crash as often as Windows? I also used Windows 98, and 98SE. It rarely crashed unless when I did not reboot it more than 2 days. Who left their desktop on for 48 hours (except me for my own reason and probably people who leeched pirated illegal stuff) Ditto with Windows 2000. For desktop, Windows is okay. Yeah so there are viruses due to popularity (or being targeted). If Mac OS 7-9 were more popular back then, it'll suffer the same fate (virus wise). People were always afraid of anything that they don't know how to operate. My parents used OSX once in a while lately. But they're still afraid to click on certain things. They said "If I messed up, I don't know how to get it back to the previous state".

by ardit33 18y ago

jrockway 18y ago

"the best choice" is not equal to "good". (Have you ever had to vote in a US election?) Windows has always been buggy as hell, and has really made people wary of software in general. If Windows never crashed or did weird things, people would be a lot more comfortable with computers. Actually... Mac OS was slightly better than Windows back in the day. So really, there were better choices than Windows. Windows just happened to be popular, and it got that way by marketing and business tactics, not by software quality. (Did you ever notice how the Mac users in that era were really confident in their abilities? It's probably because the computer didn't treat them like shit. If what you do always works, you'll probably be pretty confident in your abilities. Windows barely worked, so people were afraid of computers.)

hello_moto 18y ago
I used Windows 95. It didn't crash as often as people said it would. Why would I bought Mac OS back then? Any reason other than it doesn't crash as often as Windows? I also used Windows 98, and 98SE. It rarely crashed unless when I did not reboot it more than 2 days. Who left their desktop on for 48 hours (except me for my own reason and probably people who leeched pirated illegal stuff) Ditto with Windows 2000. For desktop, Windows is okay. Yeah so there are viruses due to popularity (or being targeted). If Mac OS 7-9 were more popular back then, it'll suffer the same fate (virus wise). People were always afraid of anything that they don't know how to operate. My parents used OSX once in a while lately. But they're still afraid to click on certain things. They said "If I messed up, I don't know how to get it back to the previous state".