Operating Systems (OS)

I have seen for the most part of this year, customers aren't liking the new Windows OS. Since I work in the electronic business I have asked why and what they would prefer instead of Windows Vista. Many that have been asked want the OS of yesteryear, Windows XP. The come in looking for a new computer with XP on it, which the only maufature of computers that still offer XP is Dell. The reason the customers don't like Vista is that most of the software that they already use won't work with with the new OS. Also they don't enjoy being asked to death if the operation at hand is ok to run.

My question is why do we have to be a slave to Microsoft? I do understand that being human we like conformity, but why not change to something else. Give us choices, give someone else a chance.

Some my not know that there is more than just Microsoft out there to aid in our computing needs. There is one that programmers love it is called Linux. There are many types of Linux that are out there. Meaning anyone can make different versions of Linux not just one company. What sets Linux apart is that anyone can change the OS for free and give it out for free. Yes you will see Linux on a shelf to buy at many retail stores, but you can find it legally on the Internet for free to download. Each type of Linux is different through it's GUI (pronounced as goo ee). This is it's graphical user interface. The system back behind the GUI has the same structure as all the Linux's do. This system is called open source so that anyone can change it unlike Windows were if you do change anything of the OS you can be fined because of you breaking the user agreements.

The bad part of changing OS's is that one might be read things differently from on OS to the next. Here is the conformity coming into play. If everyone has the same system then we won't have as many problems. Although when we the, at that time, new OS Windows ME came out did everything work? No that OS needed have the bugs worked out. I hated getting the blue screen of death almost every time I booted the new computer up.

The end result is why can't we as Americans have a a choice of what goes on our computers like what goes into out bodies? If we worked at it I bet the one thing US is based on (competition) would let us choose not making deals from company to company making the choice for us the consumers.