[Am-info] 30% (Geoffrey).

[Felmon Davis]

On Monday 17 December 2001 03:46 pm, Geoffrey wrote:

>[...]
> Most PC users don't even know how lousy M$ OSs are, because they
> know nothing else.  There are very few people who wonder what could
> be better.  Just as there were very few people who wonder about
> electric lights and horseless carriages.  The truly forward
> thinking are the ones who come up with these thoughts and therefore
> these things we call inventions.
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Marcus de Geus

I have only anecdotal evidence: the people I work with, mostly 
academics and their secretarial staff.

They are not terribly computer-savvy people, nor do they follow the 
OS-wars and, yes, they have no idea what an 'operating system' is as 
opposed to anything else going on in their computers.

They do, however, long for something better.

Don't forget, they have gone through 'generations'. Some have shifted 
- by market forces? - from Wordperfect to Word and have lived through 
shifts from Windows3.1, Win95 and Win98. They've seen features 
they've liked disappear and have sometimes been pleased by new 
features.

They can easily conceive of better things (sometimes that only 
requires nostalgia). They may not know whether it's something better 
from the operating system or something better from an app, but they 
can form the concept of better quite well.

Felmon