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Re: [News] More Vista Uptake Predictions -- Gloomy Picture

  • Subject: Re: [News] More Vista Uptake Predictions -- Gloomy Picture
  • From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:23:38 -0500
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: TEAM-PENGUIN
  • References: <2251847.Ce4xGPN11F@schestowitz.com>
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Today's Vista uptake prediction: slow again
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In an executive email sent to customers Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
> | said: < some egoistic drivel, Vist^H, Vist^H, Vist#0x00A >
> |
> | An Altiris analyst as well as Gartner have poured icy water on such
> | claims.
> |
> | The Softchoice research provides a solid base for agreeing with them.
> | Vista shipments will crawl along as companies wait until a hardware
> | refresh cycle takes place before upgrading to an operating system that,
> | for many, delivers little extra value.
> `----
> 
> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7531
> 
> 
> In other news, the desktop platform may be changing its role; pehaps too
> quickly for Windows to evolve.
> 
> World only needs seven computers
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | IBM founder Thomas J. Watson couldn't add up: it was seven
> | computers the world would need, not five. That's the contrarian
> | view of Sun chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos. He thinks
> | there will just seven hyperscale, pan-global broadband computing
> | services giants.
> `----
> 
> http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7529
> 
> Oh, no! But Microsoft has ~0% market share among powerful computers. And
> the last thing the world needs are 6 mega-zombies and 1 benevolent
> supercomputer.

Heh!! Maybe that's how SKYNET took over the world in TERMINATOR... Some bozo
bean counter spec'd windows for the network and it finally got so infested
with virus, worms and bot that it became selfaware and attacked mankind....

Hmm... Thank GOD those clusters run Linux.



-- 

Jerry McBride

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