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Mac vs. PC survey on Netscape.com

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Calum:
Macs ship with IE and Netscape installed already. i am using one and i find both browsers are problematic and they stick and crash a lot. You need to have both open, so if you can't get something on one browser, you get it on the other.
with re: to Linux browsers, isn't it commonest to use Mozzila or Konqueror?

voidmain:
That's a good question.  I don't like the term "commonest", sounds too much like "Communist" and both go against "freedom" and "choice".

That is, what is the good in knowing the result of that kind of poll? It leads some to believe that just because more people use one over the other that the most used one is the "best" when usually that is not the case at all.  And the best for one is not necessarily the best for another.  Which is why one should try all for a while and decide what is best for them.  Just like Windows compared to any other OS.  Sure Windows is the commenest/Communist, but it isn't necessarily the best.  Most people don't know about any other OS though because they have never tried it.  They assume since it is the most widely used that it is the best, or they don't even know that there is anything else (which is the category that most people fall in to).

That is one of the reasons MS has such a marketshare, many people are too lazy to do the research on their own.

[ January 28, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

CommonSense:
That Netscape poll was mentioned on at least a couple of heavily-visited Mac websites.  We Mac users are very united in situations like these, and I can assure you there was at least some degree of ballot box-stuffing going on here.    ;)

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