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Could Microsoft Go Open Source?
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| Windows 7 will be released soon, and although there is actually lots of
| positive buzz about their latest product (in comparison to a lot of negative
| buzz about Vista), there simply aren't that many new features in 7. I
| maintain the suspicion that the whole Windows Mojave experiment was just a
| ploy by Microsoft to see if they could get away with repackaging and renaming
| Vista with only a few minor improvements. No more improvement than I would
| expect with each subsequent release of Ubuntu. The difference is that Ubuntu
| takes six months to put out a new release, and Microsoft takes at least two
| years.
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http://www.nillabyte.com/blog.php?b=203
Recent:
Why the 'Mojave Experiment' Fails
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| 1. Microsoft treats its customers like they're stupid. I've had this
| complaint for a decade.
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| [...]
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| 2. Microsoft embarrasses Mojave participates.
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| [...]
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| 3. The marketing campaign blames customers for Vista's problems.
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| [...]
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| 4. Microsoft denies there is a real problem.
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| [...]
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| 5. Mojave seethes with arrogance.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/marketing/why_the_mojave_experiment_fails.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Dissecting Microsoftâs Mojave Experiment
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| Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, something stuck me about
| Microsoftâs Mojave Experiment that hadnât clicked when I first watched it.
| Out of the 140/120 participants (the number varies depending on the source)
| that Microsoft say took part in this experiment, we donât actually seem to
| hear from that many. Why?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2311
Unwanted licences boost Vista numbers
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| "From the 30th of June, we have no longer been able to ship a PC with an XP
| licence," said Jane Bradburn, a marketing manager for HP Australia. "However,
| what we have been able to do with Microsoft is ship PCs with a Vista Business
| licence but with XP pre-loaded. That is still the majority of business
| computers we are selling today."
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| Therefore the Vole's claims for high Vista sales figures are merely so much
| steer manure. The major PC vendors are still preloading Windows XP, but
| Microsoft is counting those XP preloads as Vista sales.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/29/vista-sales-really-windows-xp
Related:
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.
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| 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.
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| "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
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