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So what? Windows 7: 7 Reasons Not to Get too Excited
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| It’s official: Windows 7 will be on the shelves just in time for the
| Christmas season. From an Open Source perspective, this is nothing
| ground-breaking: It’s just the same old Windows.
|
| 1. Windows is destined to lose more market share:
| Windows is not going to gain any ground over Linux. The OS from Redmond
| simply has too high of a market share for the quality of what they are
| putting on the market. In addition, the new Windows fails to offer any
| incentive for the Linux user to make the switch to Microsoft. Even if Windows
| 7 were to be the absolute best Windows the world had ever seen, in the end it
| would still be Closed Source.
|
| [...]
|
| 7. Microsoft no longer sets the standard:
| When Windows XP was introduced onto the market, Microsoft could pretty much
| do whatever they wanted in terms of what was left alone and what was altered.
| If a program failed to work with Windows XP,
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http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/so_what_windows_7_7_reasons_not_to_get_too_excited
Recent:
Windows 7 Will Never Outshine Vista
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| Fast forward to 2009, and you choose hard- and software according to need.
| Want a cheap, portable workstation? Linux netbook it is.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164701/windows_7_will_never_outshine_vista.html
A Day to Remember: 23 April, 2009
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| And there's another reason why yesterday was significant: Microsoft announced
| what are probably its worst quarter results ever:
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| Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.65 billion for the third
| quarter ended March 31, 2009, a 6% decline from the same period of the prior
| year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the
| quarter were $4.44 billion, $2.98 billion and $0.33 per share, which
| represented an increase of 3% and declines of 32% and 30%, respectively, when
| compared with the prior year period.
|
| Now, the global financial crisis certainly contributed to those figures, but
| I think there's a bigger underlying trend here, which is that the Microsoft
| money machine is faltering.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2136
Microsoft slashes rates for temp workers, blaming bad economy
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| Microsoft, citing the "realities of a deteriorating economy," will reduce by
| 10 percent the amount it pays employment agencies for many of its temporary
| workers -- and cut by 15 percent the target billing rate for future temporary
| work.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_slashes_rates_for_temp_workers_blaming_bad_economy_40321577.html
Microsoft reaffirms grim outlook for year
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| Shares of Microsoft sank 58 cents, or 3.4 percent, to $16.63 in midday
| trading amid a broader market sell-off.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008780059_apmicrosoftanalystmeeting.html?syndication=rss
Leaked copies of Windows 7 RC contain Trojan
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| Windows 7 RC, which Microsoft Corp. will officialy launch tomorrow, leaked
| two weeks ago, with copies first appearing on BitTorrent tracking sites on
| April 24.
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| Some of the pirated builds include a Trojan horse, numerous users said in
| message forums and in comments on BitTorrent sites such as Mininova.org.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/301891/leaked_copies_windows_7_rc_contain_trojan
Windows 7: 83% Of Businesses Won't Deploy Next Year
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| The survey, of more than 1,100 IT professionals, is one of the first
| extensive looks at Windows 7's early sales prospects. It found that a
| whopping 83% of enterprises plan to skip the OS in its first year. While the
| business market typically tends toward caution when it comes to new products,
| the figure is nonetheless surprising given that almost no large companies
| migrated to Vista and as a result most have been using XP much longer than
| planned.
|
| [...]
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| The open source Linux OS also could benefit from slow uptake of Windows 7 in
| the enterprise market, as could Google's Android OS -- which some computer
| makers are reportedly testing as a netbook platform. Fifty percent of those
| surveyed by Dimensional Research said they've considered switching to a
| non-Windows OS to avoid Vista or Windows 7
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=216500331&subSection=News
The Windows 7 beta testing disaster
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| So what are Windows 7’s damning problems?
|
| –Windows usage is on the decline, and while Windows XP was an acceptable OS
| from the standards of 2001, both the Mac OS X and Linux distributions such as
| Ubuntu have matured. Microsoft also launched many other business ventures
| that it had hoped to subsidize entirely as loss leaders using Windows and
| Office sales to run the other guys out of business, but with sales of those
| faulting combined with massive XBOX 360 hardware failures, giving up on the
| Zune 2 years in with 4% of the market, and failing to put a chink in Google’s
| services, Microsoft is getting desperate.
|
| –They’re not listening to real users, they’re listening to a focus group if
| that, and the focus group gave us the McLean Deluxe, which was a total
| disaster for McDonalds. But unlike McDonalds, Microsoft has the advantage of
| no competitors. If we want to put Windows in the McLean Deluxe analogy,
| Windows thrives because all restaurants are McDonalds, all grocery stores are
| closed, and the only thing on the menu is the mystery meat. At least til
| lately.
|
| –Abusing their OEM partners for years hasn’t won them any friends, and
| mainline PC vendors such as HP and Dell are marketing Linux systems now with
| no Microsoft Tax. This isn’t helped by the fact that the only thing Microsoft
| has that is nimble enough to run on the Netbooks that they totally failed to
| see coming is 8 years old (XP) and that they are giving Windows away in a
| massive dumping operation to keep Linux off these things, because Linux is
| far more capable.
|
| –There’s no way to actually file detailed bugs and communicate with Windows
| developers or to have any ETA on a patch if one is coming. If you need help
| it costs $49.99 per incident to get someone that probably knows less than you
| do on the phone. You can’t just go to an IRC room and talk to the person that
| wrote it.
|
| –Windows 7 is in short, Vista all over again. It may be masquerading as a
| huge upgrade but the changes have been trivial, superficial, and usually skin
| deep at best, and “eat my data” and “fail to even load my program” at worst.
| Even my dad saw it running on my test system while he was over the other day
| and thought it was Vista. I had to point to the Windows 7 build number on the
| desktop because there’s almost no way to tell them apart otherwise.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/the-windows-7-beta-testing-disaster/
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