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[News] [Rival] Journalist Picks and Uses the Vista=Edsel Analogy

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Journalist Picks and Uses the Vista=Edsel Analogy
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:48:12 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Vista equals Edsel?

,----[ Quote ]
| Imagine that you make cars. You are the biggest automaker in the world and 
| you more or less own the market, particularly the corporate fleet segment. 
| Because almost everyone has one of your cars, if you want them to keep paying 
| you money you have to come up with a better car.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| This is the situation I believe Microsoft is finding itself in with respect 
| to Windows Vista: if there’s one thing that stands out from what I’ve been 
| reading and from the letters you send me, Vista isn’t cutting it.  
`----

http://www.linuxworld.com/columnists/2007/082307backspin.html?fsrc=rss-linux-applications

Peterwn brought it up first, IIRC, but some months later someone mentioned this
in Digg as well.

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