Re: Vista is "New Coke"
"Fritz" <fritz@dontbite.com> wrote in
news:O8J8S2L8IHA.1196@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:
> 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.
Me thinks you are not entirely correct........
"Windows Vista discussion groups, also called newsgroups, are places on
the Internet where Windows Vista users gather to help each other with
computer problems and to discuss Windows Vista technologies and
products."
Note the end of the sentence...."and to discuss Windows Vista
technologies and products."
This is the very first paragraph from :
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/7e81c2a1-bf3e-48e6-
8901-89e3ad3c6b951033.mspx
Entitled: Getting started with Windows Vista discussion groups
Of course, it also says....."The real stars of the show are the Microsoft
MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), independent technical gurus who
volunteer their time and expertise to tirelessly answer questions from
community members.", so......
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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-/0,1300617
>> 33,339290844,00.htm?feed=rss
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>> Vista is "New Coke"
>> Mike Ricciuti , CNET News.com
>>
>> 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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