Linux if free so to speak. Same thing. The Linux community liked keeping it a little hard to use. Like you said, hard doesn't work for the masses.
I think Microsoft won because they got themselves bundled onto the large production computers. Way back in the Packard Bell days they won the OS race. The advantage was they don't make hardware just the OS. Once bundled the 3rd party software companies wrote for the masses. Why write a Linux or Apple app when you can write a MS app and get paid big bucks by lots of people.
I truly believe that Apple computers are way faster than the PC and I believe the Apple OS is more stable. Most of my friends with Apple have Windows installed too. Now they have about 2 grand tied up in a laptop. I can buy 4 Winbloze laptops for that.
oppps, I am sorry Thom, really drug off topic now. My bad.
