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Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Ken Erfourth writes "The Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace. One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista. Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?"
They weren't slipping their release date.
They were just waiting for hardware performance to catch up.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
My friends, this is but another clever marketing strategy for M$ to sell more copies of Windows XP!
Because Aqua is the coolest thing out there...oh wait!
but, but, under specs it says Vista is
"Most secure Windows® ever"
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
Microsoft is in control. All they have to do is to discontinue XP OEM licensing, or substantially raise the price. You'll get Vista with your new PC and you'll like it. If you don't like it, See Figure One.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Nobody touches it, nobody cares. It just sits there, a Dual Processor Dual Core Hyperthreaded monster and nobody thinks its worth the time to even login.
Even I don-t touch it because the fan is noisy, all that eye candy and gloss and the noisy fan outweighs it.
I'm typing this on Feisty Fluffer, no Funky Feaster, no Finkle Fungerstein, oh whatever the latest Ubuntu is called. It's far from perfect, the keyboard layout doesn't know the Spanish keyboard I have (where are those damn brackets_ and why is the question mark an underscore__). The typefaces are not as good as Windows, the status bar is too high and the icons too amateur, but so far 2 people have asked me for a copy of the disk.
So yes Vista is in trouble, big big trouble. It-s a big yawn, it's late and the stories we hear of privileges being determined by filename etc. mean I just don-t want to waste time with it.
What do you mean, slow starter.
They've already sold 244 copies in China!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Well because it has better secur...errr, I mean, the driver support is muc...well, ok, you may have me there.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
As much as the media may want it to be, there is no competition in a market with a Monopoly.
Oh come on, I think there is. I can think of several off the top of my head; Snakes & Ladders, Hungry Hungry Hippoes, Cluedo, etc.
== Jez ==
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There is absolutely nothing to get excited about with Vista.
The 'wow' starts now! How can you not get excited about that??
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.