* Kevin McLauchlan (kevinmcl@magma.ca) [030216 11:55]: ->Er... don't know if you've noticed, but no-one in real life has ->been using either of those for years. -> ->The current target for Linux-on-the-desktop to hit or ->surpass -- in terms of the user experience -- is WinXP. ->Or, at least Windows 2000. I'll be getting that on my ->office laptop in a week or two. (Currently WinNT) -> ->If you go to a store, even a store like "Trailing Edge" ->or similar second-hand-and-end-of-production jobber, ->and buy a computer with OS, you get Win 98SE or ->something newer. Comparing a commercial Linux ->offering of today to Windows of 1994 is spurious... ->a straw-man at best. Well, I work for a company that has over 7k employee's and most of the desktops were Windows98/WindowNT 4.0 until about a month ago when they did a mass migration to XP which confused just about every sale/marketing person that I talk to. And I still have friends at Anheuser-Busch where I worked when I still lived in St. Louis and they were on Win95 until about 4 1/2 months ago when they did a mass migration to XP which again confused the hell out of a great many non-geek worker and AB has over 12k employee's. I'm not sure which large corporation's you've worked at but most that I've worked at are 3-5 years behind in technology because doing these mass migrations is very, very costly ..not only because of all the IT hours involved but because of lost productivity caused by the "freakout factor" when employee's have to learn something the thing of as new and exotic to them. Most people have a very luddite mentality. They fear change and don't do well with it. The Secretary to the VP of my dept at work was pissed off to no end because most of her macro's and ways of working were completely turned upside down by the migration from just NT4 to XP. She spent about 2 weeks getting everything back to normal and figuring out how things work in the new environment. I'm not sure that it was that different but I can say this .. she *thought* it was that different so it was to her. I think that the " what you can buy at Best Buy " arguement is a load of crap. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.