__/ [ flyer ] on Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:33 \__
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:58:46 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 05 March 2007 09:17 \__
>>
>>> The three month graph on reuters for Microsoft doesn't make very pleasant
>>> reading. In fact I would say that the fall since the initial Vista peak
>>> is dramatic. Go to the longer periods, 2 years say, and although MS isn't
>>> hitting the all time low yet, it seems to be heading in that direction.
>>> Well do you know of any great new product launch that will get that graph
>>> heading up again? Is there some secret new super-software that MS has
>>> waiting in dispatch? Or even leveling out would be better than the
>>> direction it is going.
>>>
>>> I know as a Linux guy I should be happy about it, but I'm not. MS have
>>> screwed up big time and I suspect that it will be bad for the entire
>>> industry. Vista is simply crap, it is a crap design badly put together.
>>> People are already scared of it, ask the guy down the pub or the woman in
>>> the shop and they have all heard that Vista is dangerous and doesn't work
>>> properly anyway. They are right.
>>>
>>> Ok, it can eventually be forced on people when they come to change their
>>> PC, I suspect that many will wait until the current PC is smoking out the
>>> back before they change it. Why, because MS are absolutely right in that
>>> the big selling point of a computer these days for the home is as an
>>> entertainment center. But MS have not done that well, people can't play
>>> their music that they might have bought but can't remember which site
>>> they bought it off, so can't prove they have the licence. They can't play
>>> their Videos, play find everywhere else but not on Vista. So MS screwed
>>> up on the main area that all of their Ads target.
>>>
>>> So the rush to Vista isn't going to happen, in fact the reverse is now
>>> happening, people are going to avoid Vista as best they can.
>>>
>>> Linux could pick up the pieces to some extent, maybe Apple Mac could get
>>> a revival going (put your bleeding prices down Mac or you'll miss it
>>> again). Other than that where can people go to find sanctuary (Sorry, I
>>> watched Logan's Run at the weekend, seems that in the future men will
>>> have long hair and loom pants).
>>>
>>> I think though that this is the right time for another, while people are
>>> hanging on to their XPs with white knuckles and doing their best to not
>>> get Vista, there is a gap where another could get in, should it be Linux?
>>> No, or at least not entirely. Should it be a big launch time of online or
>>> sever apps to a java machine that is independant of the OS or is the OS,
>>> well .... I can argue with myself for hours over this one pros and cons
>>> ... but generally speaking the idea is still a good one.
>>>
>>> But what of MS, is it good or bad for the industry as a whole if MS
>>> collapse in a heap? Probably good for marketeers, battles for supremacy
>>> always show good returns in the markets. Is it good for the Internet or
>>> the home user, it is actually fairly easy to argue that it might be good
>>> in business computers. But is is good for us?
>>
>>The legacy of Windows will not be forgotten for many years to come. At
>>present, roughly 30 trillion (that's 12 zeroes) E-mails, many of them with
>>attachments, are being sent from compromised Windows PCs every year. That
>>number is rising and reaches worrisome scales. Later this year you should
>>expect to see some mission-critical systems falling over. In fact, Wall
>>Street had some very serious issues last week as it shifted onto 'backup
>>mode'. I don't think it was security/DDOS related though. The parent
>>company of CNN suffered a storm of worms though. What happens when DNS and
>>banks are affected? That would be more serious than just E-mail being
>>unavailable.
>
> Europe is running MILITARY ships on windows?!?!?!?!?!
>
> When I read that I thought it was a clever joke, but it's true.
It's the military. Them and Microsoft think alike.
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