On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:58:46 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
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>__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 05 March 2007 09:17 \__
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>> 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.
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