The Vista SP1 saga: the best ad for Mac and Linux yet?
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| But really, Apple and Linux people should be jumping over the moon at these
| continual, comedic, tragic, shambolic stuff ups by Microsoft.
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| Microsoft is being their own worst enemy here, and they shouldn’t be
| surprised if this whole affair convinces quite a few people yet to upgrade to
| Vista to just forget it, and either go with a Mac, give one of the flavours
| of Linux a try, or go back to using an abacus.
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| [...]
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| Don’t be surprised if plenty more people suddenly find themselves tipped over
| the edge from your actions – and living a Microsoft-free life.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16789/1105/
Windows is going nowhere, not even with service packs that break compatibility
further and render PCs unbootable. The good programmers left Microsoft, so
only those foolish enough (sometimes foreign temps) who take orders from a
leaping gorilla try to maintain that messy codebase.
Microsoft will just try to establish royalties from competitors who will gain.
Good 'luck' with that...
Related:
Microsoft pulls Vista update
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| AFTER AN UPDATE to Vista sent some PCs bananas, Microsoft pulled it, although
| it hasn't yet produced code to fix those bananas PCs.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/microsoft-pulls-vista-update
Tech: Vista the best thing to happen to the PC industry.
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| Any one of a number of Linux distributions will run on your existing PCs
| without cramping overhead; OpenOffice.Org will handle all of your document
| requirements including presentations and Firefox (and several other browsers)
| handle your browsing. They work, they are free of charge and our own
| experience is that once users have spent a couple of days with them, they
| don't want to go back to Windows or MS Office. Indeed, people that leave our
| own company ask if we can burn a set of disks for them to take when they go.
| Some even bring their own PCs into the office and ask for it to be turned
| into a Linux machine.
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| Vista may well turn out to be Linux's best friend - and as that happens
| manufacturers are going to have to decide where their loyalties lie - with
| the consumer or with Microsoft.Those manufacturers have to learn one thing:
| if he who pays the piper calls the tune, consumers are at last realising that
| it is their money that keeps the PC industry going. And at last they are
| saying "hang on - do we need this?"
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http://chiefofficers.net/888333888/cms/index.php/news/thursday_tech/tech_vista_the_best_thing_to_happen_to_the_pc_industry
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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