[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/5/2024 2:26 PM, bill wrote:
> On 1/5/2024 2:05 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/5/2024 1:43 PM, bill wrote:
>>> On 1/5/2024 1:27 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On the consumer side I expect drivers like:
>>>> - they know Windows
>>>
>>> At the user level very low learning curve to change.
>>
>> It may still be more effort than average Joe want to put in.
> 
> They all accepted it (like I had to) when MS killed XP and Vista.
> The replacement was very different.  There are still things I used
> to do that I can not figure out on Windows 10.

Apparently the average Joe's of the world think differently.

>>>> - they have some old Windows programs that they like
>>>
>>> Unless they are running an old version of Windows their
>>> programs probably don't work.  I have had to replace external
>>> hardware devices I use not because the device stopped working
>>> but because the software did.
>>
>> Any ordinary application build for NT or 2000 should still work.
> 
> Not hardly.  I have boxes of programs from versions of Windows much
> newer than NT and 2000 that will not run on mt Windows 10 system.
> And many more that required that I get a newer version (sometimes
> not a free upgrade).

There is no reason why it should not work.

API's are maintained.

>>>> - their PC came with Windows
>>>
>>> And, if the (Illegal?) pressure from MS was removed they could
>>> just as easily come with Linux.  And it could make them cheaper.
>>
>> It has been tried. Not much sale.
> 
> Because the seller was still required to pay the (illegal?) MS tax.

MS dropped that practice in 1994.

30 years ago.

>>>                                     Not how Office is no longer
>>> sold but uses a subscription service so they can continue to collect
>>> revenue while forcing users to constantly change to newer versions
>>> even if the newer version offers the user nothing.
>>
>> Some are comfortable with the subscription model. A lot use
>> it for various services used by their smartphone.
>>
>> But there is also a large number of home PC's with Windows but
>> without MS Office.
> 
> That's true.  I have a laptop running Windows 10 that only performs the
> task people have accused the PC of all along.  It launches Minecraft and
> then runs as a game console.  :-)

You should be able to run Minecraft on Linux.

Arne