Re: Vista is "New Coke"
"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>> "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?
>
> Imagine that you actually address content instead of relying on a straw
> man argument laced with ad hominems. Oh, but wait, that would require you
> using your brain and actually thinking about what you read which is
> obviously too taxing for you.
>
> Alias
>>
Same goes to you. Your reply had nothing to do with original content.
Anyway the poster is just like you - A troll.
>>>
>>> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Vista-is-New-Coke-/0,130061733,339290844,00.htm?feed=rss
>>>
>>> Vista is "New Coke"
>>> Mike Ricciuti , CNET News.com
>>>
>>> 25 July 2008 07:20 AM
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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