Comment 1334 for bug 1

My humble opinion: We'll likely not win over the mindshare of the
majority by berating the competition, nor by entering into a
feature-by-feature (or bug-by-bug) analysis of their products. In fact,
by continually mentioning their names and products we give them
additional free word-of-mouth advertising. The best way to gain
mindshare (and fix Bug #1) is to focus on what Ubuntu does best and
continually reinforce that message, politefully, and tactfully.

On 10-08-23 07:20 AM, Tom wrote:
> I have often found troubles with the new Windows in the first year of it's
> releaes. They tend to act a lot like alpha releases except you have to buy
> them for a price and there is little or no support ("blame the user", "that
> error message does not exist" etc) let alone efficient means of
> bug-tracking/fixing. Within approx the last year of official support the thing
> becomes really quite usable but it really starts to fly about the time official
> MicroSquish support ends. Of course by then it is extremely vulnerable to
> viruses and there are many known issues but thecrucial word is "known" rather
> than "denied". I have been visiting a few offices in past few weeks and almost
> all of them have brand-new machines with Xp. Win7 seems to be for home users;
> the type of users MicroSquish doesn't care about and doesn't mind annoying
> because they can't fight back and can be easily duped by "tech support" over an
> expensive phone call.
>
> Really glad to have this space to blow off steam knowing that most of you might
> disagree with the odd comment or be able to finesse a better or more precise way
> of sayign the same thing but who understand what i mean because of having tried
> an alternative to Windows.
> Regards from Tom :)
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