Re: Microsoft and Trust Take 2

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On 2008-04-08, Stefan Berglund <sorry.no.koolaid@xxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 22:38:05 -0700 (PDT), Tom Shelton
<tom_shelton@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Apr 6, 10:58 pm, "Michael C" <m...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"mayayana" <mayaXXyan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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The same thing can be done in a few lines of VB, or even
VBScript. (With one exception. Raymond Chen's code


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Vista, which no one wants,

I read this morning that big business (MS's biggest customers) have only
adopted Vista on 6.3% of PCs. That's an abysmal failure. Out of that 6.3%
most upgraded from Win2K because their machines were getting way too old. So
almost no one chose to upgrade to it. This is a good thing. If MS didn't
realise they need to listed to their users then they've been given a huge
wake up call.

You people really need an os adoption history lesson.

slow xp sales:
http://www.crn.com/it-channel/18829228
http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows_XP_Adoption_Rates_Slow/1118943913
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/12/19/011219hnxpsales.html

New OS's always have slow adoption. I've read that Vista has about
14% market share overall. That actually is very close to the
predicted 15% for the first year. And I just read a survey saying
that 20% of all buisness pc's for the second quarter of 2008 will be
Vista. Corporates always take time to upgrade, often waiting for at
least the first service pack. I know at the company I worked at when
XP was released, we would get new XP machines, wipe them and install
2K. We did that almost until SP2 of XP. So, despite all the negative
press, the numbers seem to indicate that Vista adoption in it's first
year, is actually ahead of XP in it's first year.

You failed to mention that what you read was written by the micro$oft
spinmeisters. Perhaps that's why there were no cites accompanying your
statements?

No, I just don't remember the actual sources, if I have time latter I'll
try and look them up. I just find it funny that I hear almost
the exact same stuff I heard about XP... It's slow... It uses to many
resources... It's too restrictive (activation)... They changed the
interface... It's a failure in the market place.... I mean, one of
those articles is from 2005, 4 years after XP was released, and still
less then half of corporates were using XP. The point is, that even if
Vista is only at 10% (XP was like 12% after it's first year) - it still
has more market share then it's two major competitors combined. Just
watching w3schools browser stats put's vista at about 7.6 percent (and
growing) , and that is among a very narrow group of users.

So, you can fret about how bad Vista is. How it is the end of MS or the
dominance of Windows - but, it isn't. It is far better then Me :)

That's not to imply that MS doesn't have some issues to work out, but
things are not nearly as bleak and black as you would like to think.

--
Tom Shelton
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