__/ [ Freerdie ] on Wednesday 31 January 2007 12:26 \__
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_vista_launch;_ylt=AuZ1kKlS3IcclHGr79jt4BMjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
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>>NEW YORK - Consumers can finally get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s
>>long-delayed Windows Vista, but unlike the mad midnight rushes retailers
>>saw with the recently released video game consoles, stores saw only a
>>trickle of early adopters Tuesday.
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>>But at another CompUSA store in Raleigh, N.C., only about a dozen people
>>braved frigid late-night temperatures to stake their claim on a copy of
>>Vista.
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>>But consumers whose computers work fine with Windows XP, Vista's
>>five-year-old predecessor, may not see a compelling reason to switch. Al
>>Gillen, an analyst at technology research group IDC, estimates it will
>>take five to seven years before the majority of systems running XP are
>>retired.
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> I am sure Micro$oft will help move along the adoption of Vista by
> sabotaging XP.
They seem to be doing at at a lower level of capacity with Windows 2000 [1],
but the issues are Open Source projects like Firefox (IE7 needs XP+ while
older Firefox supported 98) and Linux that simply take over the computer.
It's a dilemma: squeeze for a Vista upgrade and drive the users away to
Linux, rather than to Vista. Finally, /real/ competition actually shows its
importance, so overpricing the product won't help in the long-term. Wait and
watch. It's already happening. A French company migrating 20,000 desktops to
Linux... and that's just one company... in one among many stories yesterday
(remember that many migrations are quiet because unsuccessful migrations
anger the customer/watcher and successful ones attract lobbyist that bully
and wear you out).
[1] Microsoft Turns Up The Heat On Windows 2000 Users
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| What if you want to keep your old operating systems, such as Windows
| 2000, running as long as possible?
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| Microsoft isn't making it easy for you. Office 2007 and the software
| for the company's much-hyped Zune music player won't install on Windows
| 2000. As other new products emerge from Microsoft in 2007 and beyond,
| more and more of them are likely to leave Windows 2000 out of the party.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196700071
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