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[News] Large Businesses Avoid Vista, An Anti-Vista Petition Reaches 200,000 Signatures

  • Subject: [News] Large Businesses Avoid Vista, An Anti-Vista Petition Reaches 200,000 Signatures
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 03:11:22 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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UPDATE: GM Considers Skipping Microsoft's Vista

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| "I can't stress enough we are looking at a number of options and that we're 
| still assessing things, and a decision has not been made," a GM spokesman 
| said Friday.  
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200805161551DOWJONESDJONLINE000771_FORTUNE5.htm

They hopefully realise that Windows is the worst platform among the
top three [1].

Microsoft Vista’s problems keep piling on

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| If all major businesses decide to stay away from Vista, Microsoft will be 
| dealt a huge blow. 
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http://vista.blorge.com/2008/05/17/microsoft-vistas-problems-keep-piling-on/

More than 200,000 demand Microsoft save XP

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| "We had heard grumblings throughout much of 2007 about dissatisfaction with 
| Vista's high hardware requirements, questionable interface changes, slow 
| performance, and incompatibilities with third-party software, but no one 
| seemed to want to say so in public. That's changed since the petition's 
| launch on Jan. 14."    
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/16/news-save-xp-200k_1.html


Recent:

[1] Tim Bray provides a bridge between Sun and developers

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| Looking further ahead, Bray predicts a move away from Microsoft operating 
| systems. "The fact is that the vast majority of office desktops are using 
| Windows, the third-best platform," he says. "You can argue about the relative 
| merits of modern Linuxes like Ubuntu and the Mac, but they are clearly better 
| than Windows in terms of robustness, cost, performance, and a whole bunch of 
| other things. For the long term, can the mainstream of business continue to 
| ignore the fact that there's a better alternative than what they're running? 
| If that logjam breaks, that's going to be a real change."       
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http://www.linux.com/feature/133149


French police deal blow to Microsoft

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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft 
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest 
| administrations in the world to make the break.  
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w


Federal Employment Office switches to Linux

http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218


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