On Friday, November 29, 2013 07:35:55 AM Mayuresh wrote: > One may suspect, Microsoft itself is throwing XP vulnerabilities in the > open to intimidate users into buying its newer versions.
yes because microsoft has financial incentive to sell the new versions and their biggest problem is not FOSS or OS X but the older versions of windows, which people cling on to. > I am not a Windows user, though general perception is XP was one of the > better versions of Windows so far. Threatening people like this is > unlikely to do any good to their image as a vendor. Don't attribute anything to smartness that can be explained by fear of change. Microsoft can make this veiled threat because they can get away from making it. > Is this a point, CIOs would be made to think about adopting FOSS systems > in place of Windows - both in the server and desktop space? In some cases yes, most cases its just lets-stick-around-what-we-know even when its just a perception. There are so many things wrong with the-windows-way and people know it. But it still does not change perception that we-are-familiar-with-it and alternatives are still way too costly to switch. -- Regards Shridhar _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
