____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Tuesday 08 January 2008 19:59 : \____
> <Quote>
> Microsoft Windows Vista operating system is proving far less popular
> with new PC buyers than Windows XP did during XP's first year on the
> market, if statements by company chairman Bill Gates at this week's
> Consumer Electronics Show are any measure.
>
> [Analysis of the numbers...]
>
> Gates' statements at the 2003 and 2008 Consumer Electronics Shows thus
> reveal -- calculating roughly -- that Windows XP captured about 67% of
> the new PC market during its first year. Vista, by contrast, captured
> just 39%, or less than half, of new PC shipments in 2007.
>
> The numbers are no doubt troubling for Microsoft, which spent millions
> of dollars developing and promoting Windows Vista.
>
> Despite the efforts, many corporate and individual PC users have
> turned their backs on Vista -- citing concerns about its resource
> requirements and compatibility with older applications.
>
> A survey published by InformationWeek last year revealed that 30% of
> corporate desktop managers have no plans to upgrade their company's
> PC's to Vista -- ever.
>
> Contributing to Vista's woes is the fact that new desktop alternatives
> to the Windows operating system have emerged in recent years --
> including Apple's beefed up Leopard OS and open source offerings from
> Ubuntu and other Linux distributors.
> </Quote>
>
>
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=IVXXPEEEUUMOKQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=205210375
This is rubbish. :-) It does not even bother to say how many people who buy a
PC with Vista replace it with Linux or XP. And no, I'm not joking.
100 million shipped, claims Mr. Gates. How many are actually deployed where it
matters?
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
Apparently, 'DRM coops' are not exactly business-friendly (and they never will
be). It's time for more business to seriously assess GNU/Linux.
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