ma, 2010-11-29 kello 01:13 +1030, Tim kirjoitti:
On Sat, 2010-11-27 at 20:52 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> I think the primary reason Windows users stay with Windows, even
> though they constantly complain about its shortcomings, is it's
> familiar, and they dread learning something different.
Not to mention lock-in. You have this data that's only directly, or
practically, usable with your particular software. To change to another
OS, you have to transfer, and probably, convert your data, and that
process might be lossy/messy/lengthy/expensive.
On practice there's a combination of the two above reasons. Windowz
people are often asking "will it be possible to open all my stuff from
documents? I have a bunch of word and excel documents on disk D:\..."
And when hearing the answer the second reason appears the scene: "Uhh!
You say openoffice? It's so unhandy!" And when I hearing it from
scientific crowd (who have to write article, reports, these, etc.) I
always ask them have they ever heard of LaTeX? It's a funny question
because I work in a polymer industry :-)
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