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____/ Mark Kent on Friday 01 Jan 2010 15:09 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 31 Dec 2009 20:40 : \____
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>>> Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:18:54 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>>> | Hewlett-Packard also did something yesterday, | albeit very quietly.
>>>>
>>>> Quietly behind the scenes, in dark corners out of earshot, that's how
>>>> Microsoft operates.
>>>>
>>>> Brilliant at covert monopoly maintenance, terrible at actually making
>>>> real products.
>>>>
>>>>> HP removed Linux entirely | from the part of their website where they
>>>>> sell | netbooks. The day Windows 7 became available | the HP Mi
>>>>> interface appears to have died a | quiet death. A visit to the HP Mini
>>>>> pages | reveals that HP is only offering "genuine" | Windows 7 and
>>>>> "genuine" Windows XP. I also | noticed that the HP Mini 110 also sports
>>>>> a new, | higher starting price, a full US $25 more than | when I ordered
>>>>> mine earlier this month. I have | to assume the Windows license is part
>>>>> of the | higher price.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://ever-increasing-entropy.blogspot.com/2009/10/amazing-coincidence-
>>>> or-something-more.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is hardly surprising - Microsoft are in all kinds of trouble,
>>> desperately trying to push Windows into a world which cares not one jot
>>> about it.
>>>
>>> Personally, I'm looking for Genuine Linux on my purchases. Genuine
>>> Windows can stay back in the Genuine Shop, where it can do the least
>>> damage.
>>
>> Financially, Vista 7 is already proving problematic to them. In the last
>> quarter, Windows revenue was down 40% as the Windows /margins/ decline
>> considerably (due to Linux).
>>
>> Microsoft has given more free copies of Windows last year than ever before.
>>
>
> This is precisely the point wrt "how do you compete with free". Linux
> is driving the value out of the OS market, very quickly now, so
> Microsoft have an interesting set of problems to deal with. They could
> port MSOffice to Linux, but that would mean effectively abandoning the
> Windows market entirely, and as there is still revenue to be had, they
> won't do that yet.
>
> Similarly, as the market value is collapsing, there will be no business
> case for creating a genuinely new version of Windows, so Microsoft are
> stuck with keeping XP limping along (2K is 10 years old now, and XP is a
> few patches to 2K) for small footprint machines and hoping that the
> public can be persuaded to abandon processor cycles in order to run
> Windows 7.x
>
> I suspect that we might see a major collapse of MS's Windows revenues
> this year, as the global recession continues, and companies look for
> ways of avoiding cost.
Microsoft's buddy, Al Gillen fro IDC, said that 7 might be "the last
OS from Microsoft" (whatever that means). That was about 2 weeks ago.
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | "Far away from home, robots build people"
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