____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 15 December 2007 18:47 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Linonut on Friday 14 December 2007 15:50 : \____
>>
>>> * [H]omer fired off this tart reply:
>>>
>>>> .----
>>>> | "Future archaeologists will be able to identify a 'Vista Upgrade
>>>> | Layer' when they go through our landfill sites." - Siân Berry,
>>>> | Green Party. http://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2851
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> That one always cracks me up.
>>
>> Yes, me too. It turned out to be so wrong. Vista doesn't sell (well, it's
>> sold, but not deployed).
>>
>> A few days ago:
>>
>> Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
>>| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
>>| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
>
> This is the irony of that remark. Future archeologists will find a
> Windows 95 layer, and probably a Windows 98 layer, and a Windows NT5
> layer, and an NT5.1 layer (XP), and after that, they'll speculate on how
> things must've changed, because, suddenly the machines seemed to get
> smaller again, seemed to last longer, and there were no more mass
> disposals of equipment...
>
> We shan't be seeing a Vista layer.
I beg to differ. Did you see that Vista packaging material? Talk about pigs and
lisptick...
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