On Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:02 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ William Poaster on Thursday 22 May 2008 13:10 : \____
>
>> On Thu, 22 May 2008 09:32:08 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> ____/ Andrew Halliwell on Thursday 22 May 2008 08:44 : \____
>>>
>>>> Moshe. Goldfarb <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> As for Microsoft's operating system, it must really hurt you Linux
>>>>> *advocates* that Vista passed Linux in desktop market share within a
>>>>> couple of months of it's release.
>>>>
>>>> Hah, though it's likely what with all the new machines sold, how do
>>>> you know how many are still running it?
>>>>
>>>> Hell, even my machine counts towards the vista stats. And the first
>>>> thing I did when I got it home was nuke and install ubuntu. How many
>>>> more did that... or the more common nuke and install XP? How many
>>>> machines registered as vista sales still run it?
>>>
>>> How many registered people with Vista machines are still running? ;-)
>>
>> <quote>
>> ..Vista passed Linux in desktop market share within a couple of months
>> of it's release.
>> <unquote>
>>
>> This is probably bogus anyway, as M$ shipped their products to the
>> retail stores & counted as *sold*. OEMs did the same thing. Then the
>> retail store is lumbered with the stuff when it *doean't* sell. An
>> example is the DSG group who lost £20million ($39,668,710.51) & blamed
>> it squarely on M$'s Vista.
>> Mark Webb, a spokesman for the group, is quoted as saying that: "Vista
>> just didn't capture the imagination as much as previous versions of
>> Windows. We've not seen the huge rush that we would have hoped for." He
>> also said *very* that few people were buying boxed copies of Vista,
>> feeling it was hardly worth upgrading from XP. The weedy OS overhaul
>> also hit sales of new PCs, the company complained.
>>
>> It could be some time before *that* retailer is stung by M$ again.
>
> An important point worth making is that Munchkins argue not all Linux
> downloads become installations. That's correct.
The local LUG downloads Live-CDs to give away, so maybe not all do get
installed. However it's interesting to note, that after trying a distro,
A *lot* of people either ask us to install it for them, or they do it
themselves. The interest in Linux & the number of people trying out
Live-CDs has escalated recently, as quite a few state they just do NOT
want Vista & are looking for alternative OSs.
> Sometimes, when deployed in a classroom, for example, one download makes
> *many* installations.
A similar thing happens with out local LUG.
> On the other hand, when people are *forced* to *buy* an O/S (e.g. Vista)
> it often gets removed.
That happens too!
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