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True. Maybe it's because Microsoft basically has a captive consumer base.
Operating systems vendors end up being a small pond with big fish just because of the sheer man hours/capital-expenditure it takes to develop a modern OS.
You have what? Apple's OS/Linux/Windows*. Unless you want to go totally off the beaten path with something like QNX, but that's usually cost prohibitive for compatibility and user education reasons.
Apple doesn't really compete except as boutique because they've priced themselves out of ever being a mainstream consumer product, although to their credit, they've expanded that boutique market more than I thought it could bear.
Users on Linux is something that IT people scare their children with if they misbehave.
So Windows it is. What real choice does one have?
*ChromeOS doesn't count. Don't even go there - it's a phone with a keyboard, not a PC.
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honey the codewitch wrote: *ChromeOS doesn't count. Don't even go there - it's a phone with a keyboard, not a PC.
The way I see it, ChromeOS is for the Anything-But-Microsoft crowd that isn't technical enough to use Linux, and at the same time smart enough not to want to pay the Apple tax. Or they're smart enough to avoid it. But looking at ChromeOS, I have to question whether those buyers realize what they're getting themselves into.
Sometimes I wish there was more competition, but then I'm reminded interoperability is a mess even with just the few options that exist today. More would just compound the problem.
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Reminds me of a big company that called me about a network issue and wanted me to come to their office.
I went to the office and the receptionist said I couldn't go in, since I wasn't wearing a tie.
So I left.
A few hours later I got a call asking why I didb't show up, so I explained about the receptionist and made an appointment for the next day and explained, if I make two trips and have to wear an uncomfortable tie, my rate is double."Perhaps you can find someone with a tie a lot cheaper, but I was under the impression that you needed a problem solved, not a tie.
So I
went back, wearing a tie with my tee shirt and shorts, fixed the problem and billed for two trips and time at double my normalrate
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Why did you care to put on that tee shirt? 
It reminds me: In my student days, my University bought an IBM mainframe. At least back in those days, IBM service people were always 'properly dressed', white shirt and tie. At the same time, they were supposed to appear at the level of the customer. So at the University, IBM service people were observed wearing jeans, ironed, to show sharp creases.
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There is surely apathy from the part of people employed at large companies like those you mention. Can't work out a problem? Push it out anyway, if it becomes a problem for enough people, someone else will surely get the job of fixing it eventually.
But when it's your own, and your name gets attached to it, you tend to take pride in your work and don't want to be made to look bad. There's really something about putting a project together on your own that works better than what a multi-billion company can do.
That's why I would bother.
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I wonder if I left the wrong impression with my initial comment.  I absolutely agree with you, but I wrote what I did as food for thought.
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I know when it comes to code, you're just about the last person I would ever expect to drop the ball, especially when integrity and self-respect is at play. You've made too many posts about rewriting and restarting projects for me to expect any less.
I wrote what I wrote to express my point of view, being fully aware - or at least assuming - you also share it. No wrong impression here, at least not from my part.
modified 4hrs 20mins ago.
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I support the software I produce so it's personal.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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That's kinda the ideal scenario, innit? At least from a quality standpoint.
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honey the codewitch wrote: At least from a quality standpoint
Dogfooding works! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Pride
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Because the Management of those big companies are too busy focusing on "Maximizing Share Holder Value" and have lost sight of the real software business that got them to where they are today.
I believe that there are tens of thousands of frustrated, really talented technical people who feel trapped by the toxic environments that they are forced to work in, in those overly big companies. Projects cut to pieces in the quest for unreasonable deadlines and dispersed among teams that have no contact with each other (except via problem recording/resolution tracking software, where posting too many problems dams the career of the poster).
Take Microsoft's latest disaster. They have pre-sold OEMs on building hardware with specialized "AI" hardware because Microsoft was coming out with killer "AI" software. So with the OEMs (with visions of skyrocketing hardware sales dancing in their heads (hey, it's almost Christmas (lol)). Have gone ahead invested millions in the new "Co-Pilot+ PCs". Only Microsoft doesn't have any killer "AI" software. In fact, most of the "AI" software is embroiled in massive lawsuits and a lot of public confusion and hate. So they quick, push out, the "Recall" software. An 'idea' that had not been baked too long deep in the bowels of Microsoft. The "Recall" software is ridiculed for lack of security and creepy spying. Microsoft pulls back the software but they have painted themselves into a corner. They have nothing else. Their stock valuation is based on their technical prowess with "AI". They must do something to "Maximize Share Holder Value"! So they round up all the internal technical wizards that they can find and quick patch up the software to make it palatable.
And a half-baked idea is going to be forced out into the public where it will definitely have bugs, definitely have security failings and for the most part is unwanted or at least poorly understood by the very public they expect to buy the hardware to run the software.
So do not discount "Integrity and Self-Respect" or "caring if your code works" and I might add, the vision to know that the software is useful, solves a problem and will be a strong foundation for future applications.
That is what is important (In My Own Humble Opinion).
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Because this who we are...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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Sadly, almost treated with contempt, a salve for the software. (14)
An easy one to get people back into the swing.
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Nothin easy about this Pete 
Edit
just spotted it (I think)
Almost treated with contempt = dissed
app could be software I suppose
ointment for salve
disappointment
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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What happens next Pete - are you on for three or is it the old rules
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I thought we were doing a different setter per-day (not WSO). If not, I'm happy to be up again tomorrow.
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Is there a list anywhere ?
Edit - found these names in one of your posts ( I added the days )
Pete O Hanlon - Mondays
Peter_in_2780 - Tuesdays
pkfox - Wednesday
OriginalGriff - Thursday
A N Other - Friday
We could do with one more setter, the setters can liaise with the others if they can't do a certain day
I know Peter_in_2780 can't do Thursdays because of commitments
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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So, let's see what tomorrow brings.
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I can do Thursdays, but you probably need to let people know what day you have assigned via the at-codes - I had no idea I was up for then.
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Good afternoon, @Peter-in-2780, we're trialling the CCC OTD this week and your name is now down for a Tuesday. Are you going to be able to post tomorrow or do you need more time?
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Nothing written in stone Paul I just put it out there to try and elicit a response from us setters - good on POH for kicking it off today
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes he did write anthems
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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