If there's any obstacle out there preventing ANYONE from doing precisely
what Bill Gates has accomplished, providing THE WORLD with a PC-based
operating system THAT WORKS better than anything else out there (you
wanna' challenge the consumer usage numbers?), state what that obstacle
is NOW


Standards.

This isn't a computer newsgroup, so I'll stop at pointing out:

1: Several OSs work better than Windows. Windows is just sort-of adequate.
Adequate is good enough for Americans.
2: Consumer "acceptance" has squat to do with quality. It has to do with
marketing and compatitiblity.

Why are they still making VOR airways? Why are they still using NDB
approaches? Why can I file GPS direct but always get rounted from here to
Kingdom Come? By now we should be free of airways and such... but we're not.

Why? Well, several reasons, but one big one is standards. The new stuff HAS
TO work with the existing system. You can invent any newfangled thing you
want, but it will never get adopted in this airspace if it can't coexist.

That's why Mac can read Windows disks. But like VORs, Windows doesn't have to
read Mac disks.

Jose





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