XP > Vista... is Microsoft in Trouble?
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| Which OS do I use more? at this point, probably still XP. But that’s
| because I haven’t rebooted my desktop in 3 months (gotta love Hibernate)
| and I have 20 windows open in XP. Do I hate using Vista? Not at all. At
| this stage in the computing life, most of my time is spent in Firefox
| and PuTTY, and they both run fine on either OS– in fact, they both run
| fine in Linux. Do I have a preference which one I use these apps in?
| Nope.
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| But Vista becoming Microsoft’s downfall? Only if Microsoft wills it.
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http://philipwen.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/xp-vista/
Windows XP SP2 will be live for a long time!
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| And recently Microsoft announced yet another gambit to maintain the XP
| installed base in the detriment of Vista, the release of Windows XP
| Professional Service Pack 2c. The service pack’s sole purpose is to extend
| the volume of product keys for 32-bit XP Professional, in a move to support
| system builders. Vista is constantly compared with XP and always found
| lacking, but maybe Microsoft has something to do with this perspective.
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http://scrnews.110mb.com/?p=21
Related:
Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft
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| Despite the heightened competition over the last two quarters from
| Microsoft-Novell and a move by Oracle to undercut Red Hat on the cost of Red
| Hat Linux support service, Red Hat has reported double-digit growth in
| revenue and an increase in profit.
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| “The success of Red Hat has been able to validate the future potential for
| open source software,” Szulik says.
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| Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC’s Gillen,
| because there isn’t as much of the legacy Windows technology to have to
| displace.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072507-linux-microsoft-gains.html?page=3
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