Re: Vista is "New Coke"
"Alias" <aka@mascaradoyanónimo.jo> wrote in message
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> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>> "Alias" <aka@mascaradoyanónimo.jo> wrote in message
>> news:g6km45$2le$1@aioe.org...
>>> Bill Yanaire wrote:
>>>> "Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:g6klf2$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.
>>
>> Sure you are. I am attending Microsoft board meetings later on today.
>
> Liar.
>
>>
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> So you afraid to tell people what your 3 business are?
>
> Why should I?
Why shouldn't you? I am not saying post the names, but post the types of
businesses.
>
>> We don't know your real name or who you are so even if you told the
>> truth, what would it hurt?
>
> Because of the low lifes like you and Frank who would try to use the
> information to denigrate me, of course. Would you post where you work,
> your boss' name and your name? Of course, with all the time you're
> posting, it's doubtful you have a job.
I wouldn't post where I work but I have mentioned many times that I work for
myself and I do software development. Big deal so you know that.
>
>> But anyway, with all the time you spend in this forum, even if you had 3
>> businesses, I'm sure they are very small.
>
> They're not that big but I make enough to live very comfortably, thank you
> very much. As I have told you before, you won't see me posting in the
> morning, Spain time. The same is true for most of the afternoon. In fact,
> a client is coming up to see me right now and I won't be posting for
> hours.
>
>>
>>>> Don't believe it for a second.
>>> And the reason you think I care what you believe is?
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>> Never said you cared. Stop reading into comments.
>
> You were addressing me or did you think you were talking to yourself
> again?
>
> Alias
>>
>>
You a bit cranky today?
>>>>>> "zuoer" <XP@ru.com> wrote in message
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>>>>>>> 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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