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PC Makers Say Vista Is Not a Seller
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."
When MS introduced the world-at-large to the DOS, it was a quantum leap backwards in computing technology. When they introduced the world-at-large to NT, they made a quantum leap forwards, but a quarter century behind.
They sucked, they still suck, and they will continue to suck until the universe implodes or Ballmer and Gates come out of the closet and admit they they are the bastard chimera children of Adolph Hitler, Bealzebob and Dubya.
I do -not- want Vista, but once a good game comes out that requires (pointlessly) DirectX 10, I won't have much choice left.
How sad to be so addicted, to be such a slave to the marketplace.
Choice? How about...read a book? watch a video? go for (gasp!) a walk? take up a hobby? Oh, wait, what am I thinking, this is Slashdot. As you were.
-- Alastair
Really, how sad. I wish I could be so unfortunate and unlucky and untalented as to sell 20 million copies of my software in 2 months.
Poor Redmond. I feel for you.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.