Re: Vista is "New Coke"
Bill Yanaire wrote:
> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g6klf2$ta8$1@aioe.org...
>> 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 can you do about it besides whine about the whining?
>>
>> Alias
>>
>
> And what can you do other than wine and complain argue with everyone?
I haven't drunk wine in over seven years.
> Why
> not attend to your 3 companies?
I am.
> Oh I forgot, they run themselves and just
> sit back and collect the Euros.
No, you forget that you don't have the foggiest idea what businesses I
am involved in and never will.
>
> Don't believe it for a second.
And the reason you think I care what you believe is?
Alias
>
>
>>> "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!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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