The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:30:18 +0000
> <1189658.5fOtNDTy4u@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Vista Not So Beautiful, say Casual Devs
>
> The real question is not its beauty, but its profitability
> for Microsoft.
Why shouldn't they be concerned about profitability? RedHat and Novell and
Mandriva and Xandros and Linspire certainly are.
> Of course, given the rest of these
> reports, Microsoft may be shooting itself in the foot
> again, apparently.
How very Ballard-esque of you.
> And beauty can be a great sales tool. :-)
Yes. Witness the founder of Ubuntu claiming "pretty is a feature".
And don't hate Vista because it's beautiful.
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