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Re: [News] [Rival] InfoWorld Slams Vista With Series of New Articles

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Was Vista DOA?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| A recent survey of IT shops shows that over 70 percent of respondents will 
>| still be using their 'current OS' in 2009, Kennedy explains. 
>| 
>| "Since the overwhelming majority (92 percent) of these sites are still 
>| running Windows XP, that means that Vista will likely never achieve critical 
>| mass in the enterprise."  
> `----
> 
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/03/was_vista_doa.html?source=rss
> 
> There are several other articles there, including one which says that XP (2001)
> is better than Vista (2007) and that 100,000 people have so far signed their
> petition to save XP.
> 
> Clearly, Microsoft has no immediately solution in this case (can't fix a whole
> platform overnight), so it will bully and sabotage its rival's 'camp'.
> 

Microsoft's business model is based on relicensing windows to everyone
every 1.5-3 years or so.  "Saving" XP is not acceptable, since there
will be no further licensing revenue.

Perhaps the most likely possibility is that they'll start to charge for
"Service Packs", perhaps not much at first, but it could rise over time.

Whether they could ever be successful at stopping non-sanctioned copying
of the service packs is questionable, though.

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