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PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller

Posted by Zonk on from the please-print-more-money dept.

TekkaDon writes "According to computer and component manufacturers, Vista is not the hotcake that they were hoping for. Take Acer's president, Gianfranco Lanci, who has just said that 'PC makers are really not counting on Vista to drive high demands for the industry.' Or Samsung Electronics, who now says that DRAM demand has not matched anyone's predictions based on Vista's now failed projections, something that is being echoed by the industry as a whole. This seem to agree with Ars Technica article on the 20 million Vista copies sold as a 'huge success' by Microsoft, which can be accounted for by the natural growth of PC sales over the years."

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  1. Re:Well, duh. by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "Most people buy computers for the applications they can run on them"

    God i hope your a linux zealout, because so few linux zealots actually get this.

  2. Re:What Linux should do by lpcustom · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm still a little concerned that if something goes wrong I'll have to go on IRC or something equally unappealing just to get it fixed, as opposed to WinXP where I just 'know' how to fix it.
    If everyone is so afraid to READ these days, why are posts so high on sites like Slashdot? Are you using the Opera text-to-speech engine to read Slashdot? All sarcasm aside... Googling any Linux prob you may have as a beginner will yield an answer 99% of the time, and anyone who feels the need to reply to me saying that they've tried this method and spent 2-5 hours trying to find an answer should really devote 2-5 hours learning how to use a search engine.
    If MS would trim some of the fat(like the GUI) off it's OS it could have a much better server edition. Put a windows server edition on that old PC and see if it's very useful. You can get a lot more power from those older PCs with a slimmed down server install of Linux or one of the BSDs. Of course, this may require you to learn something. Heaven forbid anyone try to learn something in this day and age. That would be so unamerican.
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    Beer! It's what's for breakfast!
  3. Re:Oh it's driving demand all right by Helldesk+Hound · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > You mean DirectX 10? Sure, DX10 could run on XP if MS wanted it to, but
    > then nobody would need to buy Vista.

    DirectX? I've heard of that.

    Why would I need to buy DirectX - I've not used anything that needs DirectX for years.

    Come to think of it, I see no need to buy Micro$oft Windows Vi$ta - the Windows box I have spends most of it's life turned off - I hardly ever use it any more.

    If you want a good reliable system use *nix. Even Apple knows this. This is why RedHat is doing so very nicely.