____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 17 January 2008 13:48 : \____
> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>
>>> Why save it? Surely the best solution would be to improve Wine to a
>>> point where it can run anything and migrate to Linux.
>>
>> Or better yet, maybe it's time for those Windows shops to switch.
>>
>> With that utter disaster called Vista, surely there can be no more
>> excuses for Windows software companies to stay so irrationally loyal
>> to that platform. Do they want a future, or not?
>>
>
> It would appear that many people do not see their future as being
> significantly affected by these choices. The current best cases in
> point being the BBC, National Archives, British Library and surely
> others.
Show them these recent reports (to the shops, not the vassals in the British
government):
Interesting comment from CompUSA
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| Every single one of them he said was returned from consumers... and that they
| (CompUSA) couldn't ship them back. As he heard, Microsoft wasn't giving
| credit back for unsold or returned copies... and didn't want the returned
| figures made public... He wouldn't say that every single one of them
| exchanged for a copy of Xp, he didn't know if that was true. So, I asked how
| many boxes did they have. Same glare, followed with a "You do not want to
| know" type statement.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/12/interesting-comment-from-compusa.html
CompUSA to close all of its 103 stores
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| The consumer electronics store will run store-closing sales during the
| holidays to get rid of inventory.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/07/technology/compusa.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007120719
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
Evolve or die.
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