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Re: Vista is "New Coke"


Bill Yanaire wrote:

> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message 

> news:g6kkof$3j9$1@registered.motzarella.org...

>> 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.


Um, I replied to YOUR content, little of it that there is, troll.


Alias

>>>> 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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