Leopard Beats Vista for Corporate Satisfaction
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| In a February survey of 2,200 U.S. corporate computer users, 53% of those
| using Mac OS X 10.5 reported that they were very satisfied with their
| operating system. Of those using Windows XP or Windows Vista, however, 40% of
| the former and only 8% of the latter said they were very satisfied.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/143960/leopard_beats_vista_for_corporate_satisfaction.html
That's just shocking. Can Microsoft's marketing team hide this reality with a
Big Lie for much longer?
Related:
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it
| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running
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| Vista.
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
Desktop OS, Hold the Vista
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| Exclusive eWEEK research indicates that Microsoft's desktop Windows operating
| system is a rousing success.
|
| Vista?
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| No, XP.
|
| In a survey conducted by Ziff Davis Enterprise Editorial Research for eWEEK
| of enterprise IT professionals, just 2 percent of respondents said that Vista
| was the primary desktop operating system at their companies, while 92 percent
| indicated that XP was their primary desktop OS.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Vista/Desktop-OS-Hold-the-Vista/
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