AOPA Flight Planner - Microsoft only?

The browser identity string is settable on Linux browsers and many are set
to show themselves as being Windows machines running IE. This is because
there are a lot of sites that block entry unless IE on MS.

Nevertheless, Windows is still the predominant platform for desktops. But
don't count on that forever - corporate America is poised to make the jump,
led by IBM and others, to Linux. Good or bad, that is happening now.
Personally, I am for the freedom to use whatever platform you want (right
now most of my stuff is Windows), and not support a private standard such as
MS.


"Gig Giacona" wrote in message
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I was a Mac user back at version something. About 5 years ago I gave up.
Yes they have a great operating system but Apple has done everything
possible to screw up the adoption of it by the general public.

According to Google Zeitgeist the operating systems used to access Google
during February 2004 by percentage were

Windows 98 23%
Windows XP 46%
Windows 2000 18%
Windows NT 3%
Windows 95 1 %
Mac 4%
Linux 1%
Other 1%

That's 91% for Windows.

There just isn't the base out there for every body to port every thing to
non-Windows OS. Hell, the virus writers don't even port their stuff to
Mac.



"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
Morgans wrote:

Who cares? You are a very small minority. (only half a grin, here)

The question is: Does AOPA care (about the minority that doesn't spew
viruses at everyone {8^) ?

I am, after all, an AOPA member.

Seriously: I spend a nontrivial amount of effort selling people on
non-viral-farm solutions. Thanks to Apple's OSX, this is actually quite
feasible for the nontechnical today.

So what is AOPA saying about safe computing (and never mind
monocultures)
if
they ignore us?

- Andrew

Peter Gottlieb wrote:

But
don't count on that forever - corporate America is poised to make the
jump,
led by IBM and others, to Linux. Good or bad, that is happening now.

We're a Solaris/Linux shop here, but I'm *very* aware of Apple's UNIX
product. A lot of desktop moves that might have been to Linux a year or
two ago are instead going to Apple. I cannot speak from my own experience,
but I think it a safe assumption that the Apple product is easier for
neophytes to use than Linux.

Of course, I personally still use a window manager (olvwm) from well over
ten years ago. The object model that most Linux managers use today leads,
in my opinion, to a cluttered screen that's tough to navigate. But Apple's
modal interface seems even worse to me.

The point being that I'm a poor judge of what UIs others would like. Still,
I think Apple on the desktop a good bet.

- Andrew