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Re: [OM] OT] MS W10

Subject: Re: [OM] OT] MS W10
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:15:44 +0000
You’re right, Brian, of course.  And even my son, an accomplished photographer, 
uses his iPhone for most of his photos.

Chris

> On 11 Mar 17, at 12:59, brian gray via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> ChrisB said:
> 
> <Microsoft was late to the Internet, it put Netscape out of business and 
> tried to re-shape html with IE by ignoring web standards.  Its crappy Outlook 
> Express might have been instrumental in the spread of spam and now it has a 
> new crappy Internet tool.  You?d think that they would have learned . . .>
> 
> But they know that through good marketing they have an effective monopoly 
> with desktop computers (not tablets or smartphones) apart from experts using 
> Apple products.  Thus I have not heard of a school or college, or a course 
> for older computer novices using laptops, which does not start with Windows 
> products.  And try finding text books/manuals in the library for anything 
> other than Windows or Apple  software for day to day use; apart perhaps for 
> Adobe software.
> I used to use Netscape, and then Firefox, but had to keep IE available as 
> bank and government web-pages sometimes would only open in IE.   I still use 
> Corel office software at home but know how difficult it is to find advice if 
> required.  LibreOffice (was Sun Office)is still around but I doubt many use 
> it in preference to Microsoft's or Google's free cloud based products as an 
> alternative to Microsoft Word.
> Technical merit is not enough in this world and there are advantages in using 
> the same software as the majority around you.  I would not bet on Edge not 
> reaching a similar majority position unless tablets finally replace laptops 
> and desktops as seems possible.
> 
> Mentioning photography (!), what proportion of photographs nowadays are taken 
> on dedicated cameras rather than smartphones?  In this case, most people 
> carry phones around but not cameras.
> 
> Brian

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