Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> ____/ Paul Hovnanian P.E. on Thursday 10 January 2008 01:58 : \____
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>> They must be burning the Vista install DVDs on Vista machines.
>
> That would be like compiling GCC with GCC.
How do you think they build gcc?
>
> By the way, about the figures, it's intresting to note that among those 100
> million copies, half of these might be just boxes that contain a DVD and sit
> inside large warehouses collecting dust. Several shops have complained
> about
No surprise there. Like a new car in the court yard for example? YOu
don't half talk some nonsense for a supposedly intelligent boy.
> Microsoft because Vista does not sell, so they are overstocked (examples below
> in [1,2]). Among those copies that are sold as opposed to sit on the shelf,
> not many are actually used. People switch to Linux or run away to XP
> almost
Almost nobody is switching to Linux. If you were to channel your efforts
into advocating Linux as opposed to whining like a fairy about Vista all
the time then maybe, just maybe, that would change.
> every time [5]. Less than 1% of the businesses out there have adopted Vista
> after one year in the wild [3]. Too minor an update to be worth the
> 'upgrade'?
Less than 1% have adopted Linux on the corporate desktop in 10 years
even though it is free and Free. What can YOU do to improve that?
Telling lies doesn't help you know.
> 6 years in development ought to say that something is amiss. Microsoft
> even /admitted/ this in private (off the record, but it apparently
> leaked) [4].
Liar and dreamer that you are.
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