Re: Windows 10 is not cause of down trending PC sales
The Register is a niche website read by some, though by no means all, IT professionals. It's the very antithesis of "representative".
Lots of people in this thread are basically repeating the same bilge I've read over many, many years in this industry regarding previous versions of Windows. ALL versions of Windows "sucked" according to the opinions of the conservative, blinkered, addlepated bollocksmongerers known to everyone else as "the IT industry". Remember, many of those people wittering on about irrelevances like "Linux Mint" are the same people who will happily argue the toss with you about tabs vs. spaces, Vi vs. Emacs, and so on, and on, and tediously on.
This is the same industry that genuinely believes Unix design foundations laid down in an era of Winchester disks and Wang terminals are still even remotely fucking relevant today. They're not. The ONLY reason *Linux and *BSD are used at all is because it's a shitload cheaper to piggyback a project on those than to write your own kernel from scratch. They've survived because they are free. As in beer. Not as in speech.
Want to know why hardly anyone uses encrypted email? Because it's a pig to use. It's all very well coming up with the code. I'm sure some of you could write the relevant code in your sleep. Unfortunately, too many of you are designing the bloody UIs in your sleep and making the few genuinely useful features you come up with so insufferably painful to use, only masochists can be arsed to do so.
For the love of Codd, please, please stop banging on about Open Source this and Free Software that. You're utterly missing the point of IT, which was NEVER about the software. Software is a means to an end, and that end is making the user's life easier, not harder.