government and Health authorities. His comment recently was that whereas these orgainisations were renewing hardware every 2 years, that has now gone up to 3 years and looks like rising towards 4.
I have four servers in the basement. 3 of them are seven years old. The fourth is 4 years old. Why replace them when they're still running fine?
Also, if M$ are going to penetrate into the newer markets where broadband is not available in the majority of cases (India, Africa and the far East for example) how can they hope to keep satisfied customers when the updates needed to a basic XP system can take hours to load. For example, I
And then craps out on you 2 minutes before it's done, and you have to do the whole thing again.
re-installed an original XP system pre SP1 and the total time to upload/install all the updates was in excess of 3 hours using a 3Mb link. That is totally unacceptable in these markets - especially if you have only got a 56K modem! The products such as Ubuntu which promise a stable "one off release" are bound to penetrate into these areas and gain more and more converts as time goes on. Maybe someone at M$ will bite the bullet eventually - but I bet it won't be voluntarily.
Cincinnati Milacron was the world's largest manufacturer of machine tools in the early 1990s. A Fortune 300 company. A billion dollars in revenue, built by selling heavy pieces of iron that you had to ship by truck. They'd been around for >100 years. They had machine tools in every country on the planet.
They're gone now. Their HQ complex in Cincinnati, home to 6,000 workers in the mid 80s, is now a shopping mall.
Don't think it can't happen to MSFT in a much shorter period of time. No wonder Gates is bailing. Can you say "One trick pony"?
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