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[News] [Rival] Vista a Disaster for Microsoft, the Future is GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Vista a Disaster for Microsoft, the Future is GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:24:02 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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Was Vista a disaster for Microsoft?

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| As I posted back in 2006 in an article title The problems with Reliance on 
| Microsoft, many vendors and OEM's were anxiously awaiting Vista to jump start 
| a lagging PC economy. Vendors and OEM's were so excited that Vista was going 
| to give people a reason to upgrade, a reason to buy a new computer, a reason 
| to buy new hardware... and so on.    
| 
| That didn't happen. Vista didn't move the industry at all. However, the 
| industry itself... prepared to push Vista out like it was cotton candy at a 
| fair.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| The collective disaster of Vista on retail has sent all major OEM's 
| scrambling to get non-Microsoft solutions for their computer systems on the 
| market... and that failure is going to show for the likes of Dell, HP, 
| Gateway, Asus, Averatec, and many others.   
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2008/01/was-vista-disaster-for-microsoft.html

Bear Mistake No. 1: Never sleep on Red Hat Inc.

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| Microsoft is still selling their Vista operating systems, good for them. But 
| the future ladies and gentlemen is not Microsoft, rather it's all the nerdy 
| coders that created the Open Source wave.  
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http://www.thestockmasters.com/red-hat-01262008.html


Related:

Another week with Windows Vista

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| Vista was uninstalled shortly afterwards. It never made it through the week. 
| So, I’m sorry Microsoft, you’ve sold me a dud operating system. 
| 
| Oh, and GNU/Linux—you still rock. All I have to say to you and your 
| developers is, “Wow!” 
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/another_week_with_windows_vista


RMS at UC college, Aluva

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| "The solution to all your computer problem is Windows, " thus spake 
| RMS. "Either throw Windows out of your computer, or throw your computer out 
| of the window!"  
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http://maravind.blogspot.com/2008/01/rms-at-uc-colleg-aluva.html


Prediction: Linux will Eat Microsoft on Most Desktops

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| Now, compare that to a $500.00 desktop running Linux and OpenSource 
| applicaitons. That would be about $50,000. The difference? Two or three 
| employees, a huge bonus, a couple of vehicles, whatever. Not small.   
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/prediction_linux_will_eat_micr.php


Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs

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| Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same 
| time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a 
| tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs 
| in users' hands.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| Microsoft will fight this trend tooth and nail. It will cut prices to the 
| point where it'll be bleeding ink on some of its product lines. And Windows 
| XP is going to stick around much longer than Microsoft ever wanted it to. 
| Still, it won't be enough. By attacking from the bottom, where Microsoft can 
| no longer successfully compete, Linux will finally cut itself a large slice 
| of the desktop market pie.      
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2414535067.html


Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed

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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however, 
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought 
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.  
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm


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.  
|
| 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. 
|
| "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


Ugly view mars Windows Vista birthday

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| According to latest data from NPD, Microsoft is shipping fewer boxed copies 
| of Windows Vista than it did Windows XP at the same point in the operating 
| systems' lifecycles.  
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/11/30/vista_birthday/


The Vista Death Watch

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| Microsoft has extended the life of Windows XP because Vista has simply not 
| shown any life in the market. We have to begin to ask ourselves if we are 
| really looking at Windows Me/2007, destined to be a disdained flop. By all 
| estimates the number of Vista installations hovers around the number of Macs 
| in use.    
| 
| How did this happen? And what’s going to happen next? Does Microsoft have a 
| Plan B? A number of possibilities come to mind, and these things must be 
| considered by the company itself.   
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2209837,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03079TX1K0000584


Lenovo offers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP

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| My colleague Stian just sent me this interesting link regarding my 
| experiences with Windows Vista. Since I assume the link will NOT have the 
| visual appearence it has right now for very many more hours (days) I've 
| created a screenshot of how it looked when I went into the site.   
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http://jaxed.org/lenovo-offers-downgrade-from-windows-vista-to-windows-xp.blog


Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs

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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the 
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said 
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.  
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/


DSG continues retailer woes

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| DSG, the company formerly known as Dixons, became the latest British retailer 
| to report a drop in profits for the summer months today. But it wasn’t all 
| down to the rotten weather – this time it was also Microsoft’s fault.  
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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/748756/dsg-continues-retailer-woes/


Dell casts doubts on Vista

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| Dell today revealed that it will restore the option to use Windows XP on
| some of its home systems, marking a potentially damaging blow to
| Microsoft's hopes for the newer Windows Vista.
| 
| [...]
| 
| While a popular request through the company's IdeaStorm website, the
| choice was substantially outnumbered by requests for pre-installed
| Linux, US-based technical support, and other features -- pointing to a 
| larger general demand for the change. The turnaround may be a reflection of 
| an overall backlash against Vista, observed IDC analyst Richard Shim.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/19/dell.casts.doubts.on.vista/

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