Tim Bray wonders whether we might be heading to a tipping point with respect to Windows:

These days, when you live mostly on OS X & Ubuntu, XP is just incredibly irritating. There’s always something pestering you to update it: Adobe, Java, Norton, whatever. Plus random other whining from the bottom right corner of the screen, about unused icons and firewall security and so on.

As for my family & friends who aren’t pros, and who haven’t been under the tutelage of one either, their Windows boxes are mostly smoking, diseased, quivering heaps of goo. Who’s got the time to deal with that?

I know that the Macs we have here require way less care and feeding than Windows - and my ancient Linux box has rarely required any (outside the horrors of installing Oracle 8.0.x. Brrr!). Tim notes that the lock-in effects of Office and Exchange (business) are helping prop things up - but it is getting harder and harder to ignore the alternatives.

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