"Allodoxaphobia" wrote in message
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:00:58 +0200, Peter de Vroomen hath writ:
The problem is that it's running Microsoft software.

Install one of the Operating Systems that Microsoft created in
co-operation
with a serious company, like IBM. That would therefore be: Windows NT,
Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Or OS/2! Now re-named as ECS (E-Commerce Station).
Still viable -- still sold -- still supported.
And, nobody in Redmond is fiddling with it -- anymore.



But the choice of OS is mostly determined by the applications one needs to
run. If what they want to do only runs on flavors of Windows then that's
what they should run. The most stable OS in the world is useless if it
doesn't support what someone needs to use. Like it or not the vast majority
of consumer apps out there are windows based, if it was some other OS then
people would criticize that instead.