On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:39:18 +0200
Ian Hilliard <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> > Former PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Sours on Vista
> >
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> > | Mr. Louderback is moving on to a new venture, and his departing
> > | comments about Vista have nothing to do with his leaving. However,
> > | in the process of writing his last column as editor-in-chief, he
> > | expressed serious doubts about Vista.
> > `----
> >
> > http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/08/17.10.shtml
> >
>
> "I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating
> system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy,
> was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do
> the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."
>
> Here is the core of the problem. To too many people, it is unthinkable
> to anything else but Windows. Microsoft know this, which is why they
> have allowed themselves to serve up a dog's breakfast of an OS, with
> full knowledge that it will be loaded onto new computers and people
> will simply accept what they are given.
>
> Microsoft won't take their customers seriously until their customers
> take themselves seriously and say NO to paying good money for
> half-baked software.
>
> Ian
Well with the microsoft headstart and inertia now finally fading
and severely challenged by Linux, the big change will come as people
finally scrape windows residue from their lives.
Sanity prevails in many professional sectors as they grab Linux NOW and
push professional developement hard, often quietly for the time being.
It will get much louder as more smart companies dump windows into the
gutter.
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