__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Thursday 08 February 2007 14:55 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft Vista: Struggling to answer "Why?"
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>>| But it is shocking how poorly Microsoft is marketing the need to
>>| change. Even Bill Gates is struggling to come up with a real
>>| reason for people to move to Vista. I guess because there is
>>| no compelling reason, after all. That it's better than XP (which
>>| I hated - I quite liked Windows 2000, though), I'll grant.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/microsoft_vista.html
>
> It's a well written article, and sums up much of the debate we've had on
> this subject here for some time. It also, perhaps unsurprisingly, has
> the same kind of MS paid-for follow up sort of claiming that the desktop
> still matters, but equally unable to provide a convincing reason for why
> it does.
>
> It's all over for Windows.
I hunted this down for a previous followup, but I'll repeat this again:
Google's Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded)
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| "Back in '96-'97, me and a group of people,many of whom are here at
| Google, helped build stuff that these days is called AJAX," We
| concluded, in the face of unyielding opposition and animosity from
| virtually every senior person at Microsoft, that the thick client
| was on its way out and it was going to be replaced by browser-based apps.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2088644,00.asp
Microsoft defends the cash cows, whether they are the very edge of technology
or not. That's the danger of monopolies. Without competition, nobody will
ever take the step forward. R&D costs money, so why not just hoover the
money out of everyone with never-changing tehcnology? Enter Google et al.
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