-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Creighton wrote: >>> Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending >>> support for XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as >>> many Vista copies as M$ expected :-) >>> >> Few hundreds reasons per product. Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS >> Office) which comes out as one good computer upgrade (no monitor >> and accessories). >> >> > Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants > state-of-the-art equipment to run and much of the legacy equipment > just doesn't seem to want to run and a lot of people are balking at > having to buy new computers just to buy a new OS and it's new and > improved bugs. One nice thing about Linux....so far... is that it > historically allows people to almost run on their old 'junk' machines > and still do useful work. I hope this doesn't change any time soon > even as it supports the newer equipment, I hope the old boxes aren't > forgotten.
There are quite a few organisations that have recently completed moving from NT to W2K, or have not moved to XP because W2k provides the functionality they need and seen no reason to change. What Vista provides does not really fit a lot of commercial environments, and until someone provides a commercial, must have, killer app that only runs on Vista, M$ is going to find it difficult to persuade commercial clients to adopt it. The costs in retraining staff, new equipment deployment, and migrating critical systems is causing some organisations to look very closely at alternative strategies; in the main completely rebuilding the IT infrastructure every 4 years or so does not make much sense to many (if it aint broke why fix it), M$ may have shot themselves in the foot and given desktop Linux in the enterprise an unintended boost at the same time. If they push upgrading too hard they could find some large organisations going elsewhere. On the other hand M$ may get wise and commit to a stable user interface that does not radically change between OS versions (my god! was that pig flying past :-) ).... In the non-commercial world Vista really depends on the future of the general purpose PC. Outside of more specialist niches such as power gaming and computer hobbyists, and SOHO use; an increased use of minimum maintenance and intervention consumer electronics products may begin to become more important over time and general purpose PC sales may stagnate or decline. Most non-technical people are completely fed up with machines which do not do what they want, when they want to do it, for reasons they do not understand (whether they be MS, Mac or Linux based)... eventually they will wise up and start voting with their wallets... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG/60easN0sSnLmgIRAiurAKDfIQu3aIf0x/Q508UbOaP8Sy0zggCghnA6 Wv2kpIsXjeEnRMpGYAh9hSk= =znz6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
