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____/ Homer on Saturday 25 Jun 2011 20:41 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno spake thusly:
>
>> Interesting article. He talks about how people move to Macs when they
>> have to upgrade from XP, because it costs a lot for the OS and if
>> they're going to have to pay, why not get a new shiny Mac? He doesn't
>> mention what is a bigger factor, that you have to buy a whole new
>> machine to upgrade to Windows 7.
>
> Sorry, but I think Dvorak's article is nonsense. The factors that
> contributed to the downturn in the Wintel market are:
>
> 1. The recession
> 2. Two abysmal Windows releases in succession
> 3. Long term disaffection with a flawed and stagnating product
> 4. Green Computing (ARM, Atom, netbooks, smartphones, etc.)
> 5. The Cloud
> 6. Google
>
> The fact is people simply aren't buying legacy desktop PCs like they
> used to, and that's pretty much all Microsoft's got. The price of
> Windows is largely irrelevant, since most people get it (ostensibly) for
> free anyway, as it's bundled without option on every PC sold ... PCs
> that people are apparently not very interested in buying any more.
> Apple's tablet is just one small part of that equation, but it hardly
> toppled the Wintel market single-handedly. Android has probably had a
> bigger impact, since it's not limited to just one company's hardware.
> Without the six factors listed above, I doubt if Dvorak would have even
> had a reason to write that article.
>
>> BTW I do think the trolls are off having a conference.
>
> Their disappearance was not exactly subtle, was it? No doubt they're
> off on a stalking mission to "kill the messengers".
They're doing a poor job at that. Some of them act as informants to Microsoft/Mono
folks in their "jihad" (they do this publicly, too).
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