Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Vista Transition: Microsoft Should Take a Lesson from Apple
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> | Opinion: The looming choice for Windows users is either to stick with
> | Windows XP (and older hardware) or take Windows Vista cold turkey.
> | But Microsoft doesn't have to be so tough--Apple did it differently with
> | the Mac OS X rollout.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Most small business users and of course, consumers, will be migrated by
> | fiat. These are the very customers who have forgotten (or never
> | understood, more like it) the terms of license for the OS on their
> | machines.
> |
> | Worse, this group believes they will be able to pop in the install discs
> | for XP on their new machine and everything will be as it was. Not.
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> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2010942,00.asp
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> Even that $900 million advertising budget (braishwash) for Vista won't be
> able to save it.
>
> Nice Gentoo screenshot: http://securitydot.net/viewscreen/30.html
My former Gentoo desktop (running flux as well :)
http://mtogden.com/~tom/images/clean080105.jpg
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Tom Shelton
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