Re: Vista is "New Coke"
"zuoer" <XP@ru.com> wrote in message news:488dd1d6@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> Remember that some of these companies have contracts with Microsoft, and
> that means that they are paying them anyway, even if they don't install
> Vista...
>
> Just imagine how much they have vista, if they are paying them, but still
> prefer XP.. LOL
>
> Vista is so crap!
>
Imagine you being able to get a job that pays $6.55 an hour. What would you
do with all that money? By the way, do you even know how to install Vista?
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista-is-New-Coke-/0,130061733,339290844,00.htm?feed=rss
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> Vista is "New Coke"
> Mike Ricciuti , CNET News.com
>
> 25 July 2008 07:20 AM
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> In a new study, Forrester Research uncovers some good news for Microsoft:
> Vista usage among US businesses is up by more than 40 percent since
> January. The bad news: still, less than 10 per cent of the 50,000
> companies surveyed use Vista.
>
> More troubling for Microsoft may be the fact that most of those Vista
> installs are replacing versions of Windows other than Windows XP, which
> remains popular with both businesses and consumers. Forrester said 87.1
> per cent of companies surveyed continue to use Windows XP.
>
> In the report, Forrester analyst Thomas Mendel wrote that Vista is "New
> Coke," and saw a strong case for bypassing the release altogether.
>
> "Windows 7 is penciled for release in Q1 2010. And who knows, by then,
> Apple may have even gotten its enterprise act together," Mendel writes.
>
> Microsoft has been touting the fact that Vista adoption is actually on par
> with past releases, pointing to some new customers, such as the U.S. Air
> Force. Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Veghte told ZDNet.com.au
> sister site CNET News on Wednesday in the US that at the end of June,
> Vista was actually tracking slightly ahead of Windows XP in corporate
> adoption at the same stage in its lifecycle.
>
> But even some of the company's showcase early adopter customers are moving
> more slowly to Vista than originally planned. Continental Airlines said in
> June of last year that it expected to have 7,000 to 10,000 desktops moved
> to the operating system by the end of last year. As of May, it had only
> shifted about 2,600 machines to Vista. Continental now expects the
> majority of its machines to be on Vista by the end of this year, according
> to a recent white paper.
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