Re: XyWrite and C (in the 21st century)

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from wbass@xxxxxxxx on Wed, 3 Sep 2008
10:54:27 -0600 (MDT)

> Microsoft is a dying company

Get serious, Wally. Here are the August 2008 market shares
(http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8):

 Windows 90.66%
 Mac 	 7.86%
 Linux 	 0.93%

You can quibble about the numbers, or the source, and you can
certainly prefer one OS over another, but numbers like these
have held fairly steady for some years now. Windows is
overwhelmingly dominant. You may not like M$ -- I despise them
-- but facts are facts. So why should a tiny company like NB
port to a platform with 1/15th of the market, not to mention a
platform with less than 1/100th! It's incomprehensible.

I have been installing Parallels on a lot of Mac boxes for
people who need to run Windows programs. In "Coherence" mode,
Windows programs just plain run, seamlessly, and bloody fast
too. People stop complainng about Windows "VERSUS" Mac when
they get a taste of that, because there's no versus anymore.
Since OS X is just BSD with a special GUI, I don't see why
something like Parallels can't run on *nix. In fact, a tweaked
Parallels itself runs on Ubuntu already.

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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