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[News] Many Businesses May Never Adopt Vista, Look Elsewhere

  • Subject: [News] Many Businesses May Never Adopt Vista, Look Elsewhere
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:49:30 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Vista in danger of being bypassed by businesses

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| It will be one year that Windows Vista has been available to businesses on 
| Nov. 30, yet many companies still are waiting until the release of Vista's 
| first service pack to upgrade.  
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/111407-vista-in-danger-of-being.html

SPs won't offer any new features. Microsoft said it's just some bug fixes, not
compatibility.

Will Businesses Skip Windows Vista Altogether?

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| Users complain that Vista doesn't run well with older hardware -- either on 
| PCs or with connected devices like printers that are a year or two old. Even 
| on PCs that are supposedly meant to be optimized for Vista, there are still  
| odd performance and compatibility issues with certain devices, applications 
| and OS features that make using it a less than optimal experience.   
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139663-c,vistalonghorn/article.html


Days ago:

Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP...

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| Among silicon.com readers at least, the most recent iteration of Windows - 
| aka Vista - garnered just 14 per cent of the vote, making it less popular 
| than both Mac OS X and Linux.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Another reader - going by the name Richard A - said he was "shocked" at how 
| slow the OS ran on a new Intel core duo Sony Vaio laptop. "Why anybody would 
| willingly trade a stable and established XP environment for the wading though 
| treacle experience of driverless Vista is quite utterly beyond me," he said, 
| adding: "Granted, it has borrowed a few nice flourishes from the Apple Mac 
| user interface but it really has little else to recommend it above XP. Apart 
| from security, of course."      
| 
| Neil Thatcher, an IT manager from the South East, summed up many readers' 
| views with his Reader Comment: "The changes to Vista over XP are simply gloss 
| and change for change's sake which translate as nothing more than 
| annoyances."   
| 
| Microsoft was unavailable for comment at the time of publication.
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http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39169139,00.htm


Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows

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| Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow 
| over the next year as its distributors continue to work hard at making it an 
| enterprise-class offering, research group Forrester predicts.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| "The high volume of client inquiries for  Linux on the desktop clearly 
| indicates it's not going away any time soon. Expect Linux to experience 
| growth over the next year as the distributors work hard to make it an 
| enterprise-class offering,"   
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2217087,00.asp


New Day Dawning for Desktop Linux?

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| Has the time for desktop Linux finally arrived? One relevant data point is 
| that Wal-Mart has sold out of the Everex gPC, a Google-friendly, Linux-based 
| PC priced at $199.   
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071114/bs_nf/56737


Related:

Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says  

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| For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after 
| deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author,  
| entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as 
| saying, "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your 
| Windows box, you just have to work on it."   
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2168426,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616


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| Okay, now lets tie this all back in together. Novell claimed several months 
| back in a video ad that Desktop Linux users accounted for upwards of 
| 30,000,000 different people. That's 30 million. Recent statements made by 
| some Novell representatives indicate that they expect there are upwards of 
| 50,000,000 Desktop Linux users. Microsoft has never contested the number of 
| Desktop Linux users, and if anything the deal Microsoft signed with Novell 
| was tacit agreement that Microsoft believed those numbers to be accurate. 
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/11/desktop-os-vista-vs-linux.html


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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html


Linux Users Base More Than doubled Over Last One Year: Survey

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| The number of Linux users has more than doubled over the last one year, says 
| a new survey by DesktopLinux.com. The survey also said Ubuntu remains their 
| Linux distribution of choice.  
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http://www.sda-india.com/sda_india/psecom,id,22,site_layout,sdaindia,news,19940,p,0.html


Survey: Desktop Linux use grows

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| DesktopLinux.com, which is a Web site devoted to, obviously, desktop Linux, 
| has finished a survey that found more than a doubling of Linux desktop users 
| in the past year.  
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/013576.html

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