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[News] Still Plenty of Time for Users to Choose Linux...

  • Subject: [News] Still Plenty of Time for Users to Choose Linux...
  • From: "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 25 Oct 2006 02:05:43 -0700
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Vista take-up predictions rubbished

,----[ Quote ]
| There are even fewer reasons for businesses to upgrade
| to Windows Vista than there were for upgrading to
| Windows XP, according to an expert in software migration.
|
| Rich Bentley, client and mobile manager for software
| developer Altiris, also attacked some market researchers
| for over-optimistic forecasts, in particular Gartner and
| IDC figures, which suggest that Vista could be inm
| ainstream use by the end of 2007.
|
| The IDC report in particular was funded by Microsoft...
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7176&pagtype=all

Also today:

Is Vista Doomed from the Start?

,----[ Quote ]
| DOS 3.3: GOOD
| DOS 4.2: BAD
| DOS 5.0: GOOD
| DOS 6.0: BAD
| DOS 6.22: GOOD
| Windows 3.0: BAD
| Windows 3.1: GOOD
| Windows 95: BAD
| Windows NT/98: GOOD
| Windows ME: BAD
| Windows 2000/XP: GOOD
| Windows Vista: ?
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http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=203131&start=0

The latter is a 'non-scientific' argument that says there is a flop
followed by a 'fix'. Good, bad, good, bad...

Given 2000/XP's many problems (e.g. security), this breakdown is highly
subjective. As Vista's service pack is being worked on and 60% of the
code needs to be rewritten, there won't be any developments any time
soon. Vista itself is just XP in a new gown. There was never a better
time to move to a platform which evolves every single day.


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