In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Sinister Midget
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on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:51:08 -0500
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> On 2008-06-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
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>> Microsoft: What Cost the Vista Fiasco?
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>>| The new survey, conducted primarily in the U.S. in conjunction with Ziff
>>| Davis Media and Peerstone Research, also shows Vista's requirement of running
>>| on PCs crammed with lots of memory and powerful processors to be a deterrent.
>>| Companies expect to install Vista on only about 10% of the PCs they already
>>| own, compared with estimates last year that they'd be able to do so on 27% of
>>| their machines.
>>|
>>| "It seems like the IT community has turned tepid to negative" on Vista, says
>>| Di Bona in an interview. "There aren't any features in there they find
>>| compelling?even ones that haven't had bad PR." For example, companies said in
>>| the survey that they were indifferent to Vista's Windows Presentation
>>| Foundation technology for building visually compelling programs, according to
>>| Di Bona.
>> `----
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>> http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2008/tc20080610_435192.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories
>> http://tinyurl.com/5eou56
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>> The stock recently hit its 52-week low.
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> The bloat in Vista is about 2 generations ahead of the consumer
> hardware market. The capability of Vista is about 2 generations behind
> the consumer needs market. Business markets even moreso.
>
> A perfect mix if ever there was one.
>
More like a perfect mess, from Microsoft's viewpoint.
Hopefully Linux, KDE, Gnome, and others can step into the
breach and get their foot in the door.... ;-)
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