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Re: [News] As Time Goes By, Far Fewer People Want Windows Vista

  • Subject: Re: [News] As Time Goes By, Far Fewer People Want Windows Vista
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:14:04 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <1523223.nBfJ2ntLKH@schestowitz.com> <Rs5Rh.6238$NK2.1661@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
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  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:511848
In article <Rs5Rh.6238$NK2.1661@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, i@xxxxxxxxxx 
says...
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> > New Harris Poll: Vista awareness up, sales not
> >
> > ,----[ Quote]
> >> For its most recent poll, Harris surveyed online 2,223 U.S. adults
> >> between March 6 and 14, 2007 -- just about six weeks after the
> >> release of Windows Vista...
> >>
> >>                                          March, 2007 %   December,
> >> 2006 %
> >>
> >> Yes, I will upgrade to Windows Vista:        12%             20%
> >>
> >> No, I will stay with my current OS:          67%             31%
> >>
> >> Not sure:                                    20%             49%
> > `----
> >
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=368
> >
> > This is looking terrible. Many prospective Linux users up for grabs.
> 
> Not exactly. That stats show users are staying with their current OS and not 
> that they will switch to Linux. In this post I can see why people say you 
> lie in your posts.

Mike, he didn't lie, he said "prospective" Linux users. And that means we 
need to ring the Linux bell LOUD, and bring them on board.

I've seen him make a couple small mistakes, but generally he checks his 
data thoroughly, and he knows the field.

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