Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
Mario
He was talking about private sales of PC's.
Cedric
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Sent: Tuesday, 13 February 2007 2:05 PM
To: General Practice Computing Group Talk
Subject: RE: [GPCG_TALK] : Hasta La Vista
Hi Cedric,
I thought that schools and goverment organisations in germany have a
goverment directive to move to linux by the end of 20xx. So some PC's
might be pre-loaded with "Hasta La Vista" but not all.
The same goverment policy has been adopted by China, India, Brasil,
Libia and a few African countries. Now Microsoft marketing machine
might not want us to hear about this shift.
mario
Cedric Meyerowitz wrote:
I saw a posting last night from a user in Germany. All new PC's in
Germany are shipped with Vista (He obviously only talks of buyers
buying PC's with Windows).
Seems it may be a worldwide trend and that other 1st world highly
developed countries also has no option but Vista.
Cedric
Cedric,
It has been the practice in the past for major suppliers, such as HP, to
make their business desktop and workstation machines also available with
the previous version[s] of Windows for their corporate clients, most of
whom have an SOE and want to keep it that way. My understanding is that
Windows 2000 is still king in that arena.
Also, it is still possible to buy OEM versions of XP and 2000, so if you
are having a PC built to specs, you should be able to avoid Vista. I
have had customers who bought 2000 this way long after XP came out.
Equally, I'm sure if you go to the likes of Harvey Norman or Office
Works, you'll see nothing but Vista, but most of the machines will be
consumer-grade anyway.
Greg
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