__/ [ 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.
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