waterskidoo wrote:
> On 2007-07-27, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Microsoft Buries Windows XP in Windows Vista
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>> | Windows XP might not be officially declared expired, but Microsoft has done
>> | its best to completely drown the operating system in Windows Vista
>> | references. Want to witness first hand the Redmond company's desperation to
>> | push Vista over XP?
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Buries-Windows-XP-in-Windows-Vista-61128.shtml
>>
>> The recent stories suggest that not many people 'upgrade'. New PCs have Vista
>> wiped (for Linux or XP).
>
> My experience has shown this to be very true. The people that stay with Vista
> are mostly people who use what came in the box and have little
> shrink wrap that they need to transfer over.
> For them, the pre-loaded all in one system works fine and Vista is just the
> ticket.
> For those with more ambitious needs including migrating their own programs
> that they had on XP to the new Vista machine the results are different and
> these people tend to get frustrated with Vista and seek out ways to
> load XP on their new Vista machine.
> This also creates more troubles as these people soon learn that the
> XP disks they got with their older pre-loaded machine will not
> work with the new machine as they are tied to the hardware and
> are just restore copies and not true, full copies.
> A lot of people are just now discovering how badly they have
> been screwed by Microsoft.
> This is a golden opportunity for Linux IMHO because the alternative
> is for these people to pirate XP, which they really have already
> paid for but can't use.
>
Folks whom I meet in stores often avoid buying hardware with VISTA
included, after the store demo with LiveCDroms of PCLinuxOS, Mepis, DSL,
Knoppix, FreeSBIE, LiveBSD, and others, on those systems.
Funny how few folks need a $1200, 3,000 megahertz cpu and 2 Gigabytes
of RAM just to check their email and play solitare, mine sweeper, etc.
Then, we boot up the old home system in a LiveCDrom, that was pwned by
trojans.
Next, we click on the Install icon, and, in about 11 to 20 minutes,
another family gets their system back, saving thousands in investment.
I don't think the M$ PR department ever considered the massive
grassroots power of personal friends, family members, who already run
the FREE Open Source OSes.
http://livecdlist.com has 315 of them, complete with games,
applications, suites, that you can have, burn, run, install, play, and own.
Anyone who would dissuade you from test driving a new FREE product, is
probably a sleazy salesman who values money over friendship.
Make your own choice.
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