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At no point post Windows 95 did any other company has a claim to go-to OS for ease or otherwise than Microsoft. It is fact, does not matter what your likes or

• dragonwriter 13y ago
  > At no point post Windows 95 did any other company has a claim to go-to OS for ease or otherwise than Microsoft. It is fact, does not matter what your likes or dislikes are. Personally, I prefer Windows to Mac OS X, so if I was stating my OS preference rather than my perception of the perception common in the market, I wouldn't have said what I did. But I don't think what you say is a fact at all -- its a claim that I've, in the course of using almost every Microsoft DOS/Windows version since MS-DOS 2.11, and most versions of Mac OS, and interacting with plenty of other users over that time, never even heard outside of this thread. "Ease of use" and "familiarity to people who have been using it for a long time" are two very different things. Every OS has the latter, and Windows has by far the largest base of familiar people -- which, as long as nothing significant changes, is a strength (and MS occasionally gets bashed for breaking familiarity -- this happened with Windows 8, sure, but also with Vista and XP -- and even more often with applications and opposed to OS's.)