Today's Vista uptake prediction: slow again
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| In an executive email sent to customers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
| said: < some egoistic drivel, Vist^H, Vist^H, Vist#0x00A >
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| An Altiris analyst as well as Gartner have poured icy water on such claims.
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| The Softchoice research provides a solid base for agreeing with them. Vista
| shipments will crawl along as companies wait until a hardware refresh cycle
| takes place before upgrading to an operating system that, for many,
| delivers little extra value.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7531
In other news, the desktop platform may be changing its role; pehaps too
quickly for Windows to evolve.
World only needs seven computers
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| IBM founder Thomas J. Watson couldn't add up: it was seven
| computers the world would need, not five. That's the contrarian
| view of Sun chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos. He thinks
| there will just seven hyperscale, pan-global broadband computing
| services giants.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7529
Oh, no! But Microsoft has ~0% market share among powerful computers. And the
last thing the world needs are 6 mega-zombies and 1 benevolent
supercomputer.
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