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Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista'
amyandjake writes "Business 2.0 has a story about Vista's delays, the amount of time wasted by Microsoft bringing Vista to market, and the fact that it doesn't seem to have any compelling features for upgrading. The last paragraph of the story says 'Boycott Vista. Keep your old Windows XP PC around. Don't buy a new one. That's the only way we have to let Microsoft know Vista is an overhyped, late, and pointless update to XP — a perfectly fine operating system.'" Relatedly, torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott is at it again with his seemingly never-ending supply of information about Windows Vista. This time, he discusses the things he dislikes about the program, in the article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1."
Since Microsoft's main market is the average computer user, i.e., desktop sales of their OS, am I correct to conclude that said people don't read Business 2.0 and hence his call to boycott Vista will go unheard?
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I would think that most of us Like XP and Unix variants. But as you know there is the silent Majority that reads, and the Vocal minority that posts...Have a great week end !
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I am in a large orginization, and we wipe all new machine and install W2K.
There is no reason it can't keep happening that way.
We are also loking at a vendor that still ships W2K machines.
If business call up dell and say they won't make the 100,000 dollar order for machines with vista, Dell will take it seriously.
MS, like everyonme else, will change to meet consumer demands.
That's why they spend so much money telling people what they want.
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I'm putting off buying a new laptop until Slackware 11.0 comes out. All I care about as far as Vista goes is if I can get out of paying any money to Uncle Bill.