How Did We All End Up With Windows?
Reg Reader Workshop It’s amazing how many people who have Microsoft Windows everywhere look flummoxed when asked whether Windows is their “standard” for desktop computing. The reason they are thrown by this question is typically because they haven’t thought about it that way before.
In all likelihood, they never actually made a proactive decision to select Windows, in the sense of looking at alternatives and making a conscious objective choice. So how did they end up with it? It’s an example of a phenomenon that we come across time and time again when looking at how people have arrived at the IT landscapes they have today, and if you explore it a little further, it becomes clear the key to a lot of Microsoft’s success is establishing as many of its products as possible as the “default” when it comes to decision making. Read More»
