It was on, or about, Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:34:22 +0100, that as I was
halfway through a large jam doughnut, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Less Than 2 Percent of UK Companies Have Upgraded to Vista
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Asked, “What are your firm’s Windows Vista upgrade plans?”, just over
> 1% said | they have already upgraded all desktops to Windows Vista.
> `----
>
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2A4E0CD-4407-407D-8F33-
D206DCC35B4B
>
> That's disastrous and it over/underwhelms (depending on perspective)
> many people's expectations. Microsoft affinity is very high in the UK
> (compared to other countries).
The FT has published this today:-
Headline: Microsoft's problem is close to home
".......the biggest challenge facing Windows is not the threat from
European Union regulators. It is that Microsoft's operating software -
its flagship product - does not work very well."
And here's is (IMHO) why windoze (l)users always rush out to buy the
latest offering from M$:
"I have not rushed to this conclusion. I was among the early adopters of
Windows 3.1 after Microsoft launched it in 1992. Since then I have taken
my chances on Windows NT and Windows 2000 at work and Windows 95, Windows
98, Windows ME, Windows XP and, most recently, Windows Vista at home.
Each time, I have hoped against hope that Microsoft had solved Windows'
deep-seated problems."
There you have it! Poor windoze using saps (& there are probably
countless numbers of them) *hope* that M$ is actually going to come up
with an OS that works! Ok, the guy goes on to say he's bought a Mac, meh,
but it could quite easily have been a Dell linux box. However the main
point is that *he* has found out what a POS Vista is, & how many more are
going to start looking at other OSs, & moving away from M$.
The one flaw in his article is "...Linux open source software is widely
used only on corporate servers, not on desktop machines...." & you'd have
thought the guy would have done *some* research before spouting that.
The full article is here:-
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa31eea2-6711-11dc-a218-0000779fd2ac.html
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Hadron - comp.os.linux.advocacy
Message-ID: <n145s4-517.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:30:46
"Of course I troll sometimes. I never denied it."
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