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One thing we think about is observing the gibberish you used to post. Use real words.
Capitalization and spelling are also appreciated.
This place isn't for posting in text formats, and despite all the squawking, not for tweet-style, either. In other words, use words!
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CDP1802 wrote: Only Crystal Reports sometimes.
Yeah, well, that's not psychic - that's sorcery or black magic! Nobody ever knows if it works - and how! And nobody wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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CDP1802 wrote: Only Crystal Reports sometimes.
Oh my, thanks a lot for reminding me that I must revisit Hades and make a deal with the landlord in order to figure out the bare essential distributable libraries needed for CR XI through field definitions. This is not a programming question, merely an expression of disgust! 
Edit: There is a reason I reference the CrystalRuntime.Application object as 'crAp'! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yes. Windows 11.
Caveat: The future may not have as many 'computers' as mobile devices.
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NKS
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I am informed that this is the year of the Linux Desktop.
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What? Again? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I thought it was called optimism
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Every year is the year of the Linux Desktop.
I find your lack of faith disturbing..
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Sascha Lefévre wrote: I find your lack of faith disturbing..
invisible pink unicorns?
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HobbyProggy wrote: invisible pink unicorns?
That's the desktop-theme of the latest Linux distro
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The twitter handle for the EF team at MS is, yes, @efmagicunicorns. 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Somehow I saw it coming...
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I think the Apple Watch is dumb, but I can all but guarantee it will sell more copies than the installed base of Linux on the Desktop within a month of its release.
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It's been the year of the Linux desktop for me for the past 6 years; everytime I produce a reasonably straight doze machine somebody buys it from me.
Most recently I bombed a W7 machine from ebay back to the stone age, with only 70G of free space(from 250 G disk) it was obviously a mule full of paedo stuff or simply another terrible case of windows bloat.
Sold it at a profit.
To nuns. In Yorkshire.
You have been warned. 
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People will keep betting on the market-leader. Meaning the market-leader will stay exactly that, regardless of quality.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's not only betting on the market-leader.
You stay market-leader by providing better quality than your competitors. And quality in regards to operating systems includes more than just system stability. You have to consider the number of available software (and it's quality), backwards compatibility and so on as well. You can write a completely bug-free OS if you want and you won't sell a copy of it unless your customers are actually able to run the software they need on it.
Of course software companies tend to write for operating system of the market-leader first, which in turn makes it kinda difficult for other OS publishers.
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Nicholas Marty wrote: You have to consider the number of available software (and it's quality), backwards compatibility and so on as well.
That is way they will stay market-leader. If said manager has to look for application-software, he'll end up with Microsoft again. That means that most documentation and tutorials are aimed at, you guessed it, Microsoft products. It is one of the advantages of having a monopoly.
Nicholas Marty wrote: You can write a completely bug-free OS
No, that is impossible.
No software-vendor will have NASA's resources, and even they make mistakes that cost lives. So, unless you can beat NASA on a lower budget, you won't have bug-free software.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Nicholas Marty wrote: When I have to consider which OS I want, I factor many things in.
Yeah, same list as I was thought in school, but that is not how the world works.
There's no testing on stability, no stats to compare. If it runs Microsoft Office, then it is accepted. Bing, welcome Windows.
Nicholas Marty wrote: Is it providing a similiar User Interface that I'm already used to, so I will feel at home soon enough?
Yeah, it saves money if you don't have to re-educate the users, saves time, frustration - but marketing will tell you that no-one will buy it if it looks "old". See Win8 and its start-menu. See Vista and Aero.
Nicholas Marty wrote: You could conclude, that being the market-leader is a part of their quality as well 
No, I'll conclude that having a monopoly-position nearly guarantees a monopoly-position. Unless you're an IBM or Netscape, in which case even that is not enough to survive.
Nicholas Marty wrote: And I think a completely bug-free OS IS possible.
Only in theory. You'd need a bigger budget than NASA (already clear on that point it would not be commercial), and you would still not be able to prove that it does not contain bugs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You are talking about Personal Computers, but the time are changing. Younger people have mostly a smartphone or tablet and on these devices is Android or iOS most of the times.
Do you know Kodak?
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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KarstenK wrote: Do you know Kodak?
Watzdat?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Not really a good comparison; there was an alternative for the Kodak-product. A laptop or phone is no replacement for a personal computer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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