On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:24:02 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Was Vista a disaster for Microsoft?
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> | As I posted back in 2006 in an article title The problems with
> Reliance on | Microsoft, many vendors and OEM's were anxiously awaiting
> Vista to jump start | a lagging PC economy. Vendors and OEM's were so
> excited that Vista was going | to give people a reason to upgrade, a
> reason to buy a new computer, a reason | to buy new hardware... and so
> on.
> |
> | That didn't happen. Vista didn't move the industry at all. However,
> the | industry itself... prepared to push Vista out like it was cotton
> candy at a | fair.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | The collective disaster of Vista on retail has sent all major OEM's |
> scrambling to get non-Microsoft solutions for their computer systems on
> the | market... and that failure is going to show for the likes of Dell,
> HP, | Gateway, Asus, Averatec, and many others. `----
>
...and yet just about every computer in every retail store has Vista
loaded on it. What I find totally bizarre is that the customer is left
with only one choice for the OS. Why not a computer with a blank hard
drive and the customer gets to choose from 10 or 15 different operating
systems ? In the next universe I certainly hope this will be the case.
Of course there is Linux, and the various distros are sort of like
having multiple systems to choose from...so we need to spread the word
...I think I'll but a hokey suit and stand around in Best Buy !!
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