Why would Microsoft care about low-goal users? They've been providing software and now hardware for people who want to max-out their digital world. I don't really think they even consider low-goal users when it comes to anything they make.
Uh, Vista Basic? That's a pretty low goal. How about XP Home? ME? They didn't seem to be shootin' high with those products. If you mean low goal as in easy-to-use-low-system-requirements, I don't think anything MS has made has hit that mark yet.
And "max out their digital world"? Which brochure or flash ad did you get that one from? Cooooooooooooome on...
Because, the lower users mostly will move up to higher end systems eventually. If they learn to use Linux then moving to Windows later becomes a barrier.
I max out my own digital world and Microsoft has been the biggest part of that. It doesn't mean the Eee or any other product out there isn't any good. It just means the world has turned against the biggest and taken all the advancements for granted. I feel lucky to do all these things with my PCs and XBOXs and PSPs. Now the PSP itself is Sony, but thanks to Microsoft I use it as "almost" my main information/entertainment device. I don't play games on it, I play them on MS's 360 and on the PC. If I need to to play a game on the go, the PSP is ready to do that. I could go on and on about what I do with PCs. What worries me is we have made doing 100 things with your PC or MAC uncool...so people drool at the prospect of doing it with a phone or a mini-laptop. That's all....
Does the events surrounding the OLPC ring any bells. Microsoft literally played the underhand so OLPCs could run Windows. There is more to computing than just Microsoft. I was once blinded by their shadow but now I see the light.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Why would Microsoft care about low-goal users? They've been providing software and now hardware for people who want to max-out their digital world. I don't really think they even consider low-goal users when it comes to anything they make.
Uh, Vista Basic? That's a pretty low goal. How about XP Home? ME? They didn't seem to be shootin' high with those products. If you mean low goal as in easy-to-use-low-system-requirements, I don't think anything MS has made has hit that mark yet.
And "max out their digital world"? Which brochure or flash ad did you get that one from? Cooooooooooooome on...
Because, the lower users mostly will move up to higher end systems eventually. If they learn to use Linux then moving to Windows later becomes a barrier.
I max out my own digital world and Microsoft has been the biggest part of that. It doesn't mean the Eee or any other product out there isn't any good. It just means the world has turned against the biggest and taken all the advancements for granted. I feel lucky to do all these things with my PCs and XBOXs and PSPs. Now the PSP itself is Sony, but thanks to Microsoft I use it as "almost" my main information/entertainment device. I don't play games on it, I play them on MS's 360 and on the PC. If I need to to play a game on the go, the PSP is ready to do that. I could go on and on about what I do with PCs. What worries me is we have made doing 100 things with your PC or MAC uncool...so people drool at the prospect of doing it with a phone or a mini-laptop. That's all....
Does the events surrounding the OLPC ring any bells. Microsoft literally played the underhand so OLPCs could run Windows. There is more to computing than just Microsoft. I was once blinded by their shadow but now I see the light.