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Re: Why Vista is the Beginning of the End of Windows (Was: Vista is in trouble)

____/ Paul Hovnanian P.E. on Thursday 10 January 2008 01:58 : \____

> They must be burning the Vista install DVDs on Vista machines.

That would be like compiling GCC with 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
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
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'?
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].


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[1] Currys group blames Vista for poor sales

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| DSG, the group behind Currys and PC World, has warned that poor sales of 
| Vista could slash its profits by around £20 million. 
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/131507/currys-group-blames-vista-for-poor-sales.html


[2] DSG continues retailer woes

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| DSG, the company formerly known as Dixons, became the latest British retailer 
| to report a drop in profits for the summer months today. But it wasn’t all 
| down to the rotten weather – this time it was also Microsoft’s fault.  
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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/748756/dsg-continues-retailer-woes/

[3] Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It

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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the 
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit 
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it 
| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running 
| Vista.    
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html


[4] Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report 

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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
| 
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125


[5] Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed

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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however, 
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought 
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.  
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm

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