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1. Zinio reader linux windows 10#
2. Zinio reader linux Pc#
3. Zinio reader linux windows 7#
4. Zinio reader linux windows#

Apple has managed to keep their status symbol appeal for a long time, but Microsoft’s cool was never the “part of an elite club” kind of cool.

Zinio reader linux windows#

Neither Microsoft nor Windows has been cool in a long time, and that’s okay, really… a computer is a tool to do work, not to show how cool you are by owning a cool machine. The internet had gone mainstream, and suddenly everyone needed a way to use it… and that way was Windows 95, largely. It’s hard to imagine today, but there was a rockstar appeal to it that had never existed for Microsoft before. It was exciting and cool… something you’d want to have and talk about. Windows 95 was seen as a real revolution back in its day.

It would not be until the beginning of the browser wars (with Windows 98, the first version of Windows to have IE integrated, which was a symbol for the browser wars that were already in progress) that broad contempt for Microsoft appeared to became commonplace, though it was far from universal.

Zinio reader linux Pc#

While Microsoft already owned the PC OS market with DOS, I think it was Windows that actually put their name into people’s heads. OS/2 looked like it was set to continue that, until Microsoft challenged their former partner with Windows. Microsoft was kind of a non-entity in people’s minds… it was Lotus that ruled spreadsheets and Wordperfect that ruled word processing, not Excel or Word. It was IBM that loomed over the whole community… all of our machines were either IBM or were copies of them. MS-DOS, while crude and lacking in hardware abstraction, multiuser support, security, memory management, and multitasking capability, was capable of what people used PCs for at the time, and it seems like people didn’t really think much about Microsoft. Windows 3.0 was a new exciting thing for the computer magazines to write articles about and extol its many new features, but it would be a few more years before people began to think of Windows as a platform rather than as an application for the DOS platform.Īt that time, I don’t remember any stigma attached to Microsoft. Back then, in 1990, DOS was used for the real work (and gaming) in the PC world. PC in this sense refers to the IBM PC, the one that started it all, even though IBM itself has not been in the market for many years. Later on, that enthusiasm was transferred to what we now call the PC world, even though they’re all PCs in the original sense of the word. And yes, I had subscriptions to computer magazines like Compute’s Gazette and RUN. What I did with it wasn’t important as long as I was using my computer, I was as happy as I could be. When I was younger, in my teenage years, I would sit down in front of the Commodore 64 and try to think of things to do with it. It’s enthusiasts who would buy and read computer magazines like the ones Oscar mentioned. I’ve always been a computer enthusiast rather than just one who uses them to accomplish tasks. There are a number of us here who have, but it’s hard to draw any broader conclusions about how the general public thinks based on what people on a tech-oriented site like this report… and even here, those who have not abandoned Windows for Linux, MacOS, etc., outnumber those who have.

Zinio reader linux windows 10#

Perhaps others reading this might be moved to conduct their own informal mag-shop reviews of how Windows 10 is doing versus the Rest of the World, and then contribute here their penny’s worth of insight on this vexing issue.

Now, I admit this is one data point of very circumstance evidence, so I derive no hard and fast conclusions from it, but merely offer those few alternative explanations.

Zinio reader linux windows 7#

Now, I thought, this is curious, and I wondered:Ĭould it be that the coming of Windows 7 EOL has people snapping actual Windows 10 mags hot off the printing press?Ĭould it be that most people are quite happy using tablets and smartphones and care little for PCs and their software? Unless they are PCs running Linux or Macs running… macOS? There was also, sitting among those, one small book (not a magazine) with a title informing its potential buyers that it was a comprehensive guide to using Windows 10. There were six magazines there, that I imagine are published regularly, one dedicated to Macs, one to iPads, two to iPhones, one to Android, and one dedicated to Linux. While looking in the section for “Science” magazines, I looked also in the “Technology” one next to it and was able to make the following observation: Today I went to a nearby mall for groceries at the Giant’s, pizza-by-the-slice at the 40-year old pizza shop there, and to see if there was a new issue of Scientific American at the local books and magazines’ shop.