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Dell charges extra $50 for XP
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| As of today, buyers of models in the company's Vostro line will be offered
| Vista Business version. If they baulk at that, Dell offers to stick XP in the
| system for an extra $50.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/19/dell-charges-extra-xp
Windows XP should be Vista's successor on the face of it. Linux and OS X are in
a different league and Microsoft might be the next Novell, living on its
dwindling installed base.
Windows seems doomed. Longest suicide notes in history.
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
Recent:
Linux Development Thriving
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| There was a time when developers were clamouring all over Microsoft, but
| latest figures from Evans Data shows that fewer than one in ten software
| developers are writing applications for Windows Vista this year – just eight
| percent. To rub salt in the wound, the data shows that 49 percent of
| developers are writing applications for Windows XP.
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| Linux is also thriving it would seem. 13 percent are writing applications,
| with 15.5 percent in 2009.
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| [...]
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| Unfortunately for Microsoft, that probably means re-investing in XP and
| dumping Vista like an unwanted prom date.
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http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/linux-development-thriving/
Vista's big problem: 92 percent of developers ignoring it
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| Such appreciation for history is not likely to warm the cockles of
| Microsoft's heart, especially when Linux is getting lots of love from
| developers (13 percent writing apps for it this year and 15.5 percent in
| 2009).
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9969231-16.html
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