Re: Vista is "New Coke"
Fritz wrote:
> This is a support newsgroup - not a whinning forum. There are places on the
> net where you can complain about Vista all you want. This isn't one of
> them.
And what, pray tell, can you do about it besides whine?
Alias
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> "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!
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>> 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
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>> 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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