* thad05@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx fired off this tart reply:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Microsoft's Big Problem in a Small Box
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>> | Vista is a big operating system that demands monster graphics and dual-core
>> | processors. But what if the market pines for a whole lot less?
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>> | [...]
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>> | The mass move to mobile computing is a destabilizing force and harbinger of
>> | change. Microsoft's position would be better if Vista didn't demand so much
>> | when the market wants so little.
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> Interesting. I don't know if the current trend of lightweight
> desktops and sub-notebooks will be as market shaking as this
> article implies, but whatever the impact it certainly favors
> Linux over Windows. With Vista, MS has basically rolled out
> a gas guzzling SUV when the market was asking for hybrids.
Well, where I live there are an awful lot of lumbering, gas-guzzling
BATs [1] being driven by lumbering, alcohol-guzzling drivers.
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[1] BAT: Big-Assed Truck
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Tux rox!
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