Comments on: Why Windows Wins | Linux Magazine http://philcrissman.com/2007/02/01/why-windows-wins-linux-magazine Web Development, startups, entrepreneurship, books, art, and other stuff Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:49:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Phil Crissman http://philcrissman.com/2007/02/01/why-windows-wins-linux-magazine/comment-page-1#comment-1260 Phil Crissman Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:40:21 +0000 http://www.philcrissman.com/2007/02/01/why-windows-wins-linux-magazine/#comment-1260 I suppose you're right; for me, I'd say the scale was what made it seem worth commenting on. I don't necessarily think that earlier versions required quite as much of an upgrade on the hardware side. XP was capable of running on a PII with 128MB of RAM -- admittedly, performance would suffer, but if you had a PIII or equivalent and 256MB , you could probably have upgraded and be perfectly happy. So, yes, it's certainly not a "new" tactic -- just a little bigger upgrade requirement. I suppose you’re right; for me, I’d say the scale was what made it seem worth commenting on. I don’t necessarily think that earlier versions required quite as much of an upgrade on the hardware side. XP was capable of running on a PII with 128MB of RAM — admittedly, performance would suffer, but if you had a PIII or equivalent and 256MB , you could probably have upgraded and be perfectly happy.

So, yes, it’s certainly not a “new” tactic — just a little bigger upgrade requirement.

]]> By: mrben http://philcrissman.com/2007/02/01/why-windows-wins-linux-magazine/comment-page-1#comment-1259 mrben Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:29:45 +0000 http://www.philcrissman.com/2007/02/01/why-windows-wins-linux-magazine/#comment-1259 Why is everyone treating this like it's somehow a new idea? _Every_ version of Windows, without fail, has required a certain tier of users to go out and replace their old hardware in order to upgrade. Granted, the size of that tier may be bigger, but this is not a new concept. Why is everyone treating this like it’s somehow a new idea? _Every_ version of Windows, without fail, has required a certain tier of users to go out and replace their old hardware in order to upgrade. Granted, the size of that tier may be bigger, but this is not a new concept.

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