DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption

quixote9 writes "We've heard conflicting estimates of how widely adopted Vista has been. Now comes some hard data. DRAM makers ramped up to meet the huge expected demand for more memory needed by Vista. Except the demand hasn't materialized. Now they're suffering. Alternatively, maybe everyone's cleverly hacked their Ultimate Aero Glass Vista to fit on their old PCs."

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Re:Or maybe

[ancientt]

Maybe people just eventually learn their lessons. When the cell phone was first becoming popular, it weighed a ton and the return on sales was high. Now you sell astronomically more for far less with a much lower profit margin. The same people that bought the bricks now sit back and wait, in no hurry because they see the trend. Newcomers to the market still buy the upper end phones, but less as a percentage than did at first because all the conventional wisdom now says not to.

People flocked to buy '95, but it is twelve years later and all those people who then flocked, do not see a significant difference between XP and Vista. Newcomers to the market will hear people curse Vista if they discuss their plan to purchase it. (As our shop does, we have a couple hundred Windows licenses with two Vista installs and no intent to have any more in the foreseeable future.)

There is an upside to this, now is the time for Linux (or Mac for that matter) to pick up converts. More and more people know what I mean when I say that I use Linux and it takes only a nod and reassurance that it is easy to use now for them to try it. Mac commercials are funny and make the point, but can you imagine what the same advertising budget on Linux would be doing to the adoption rate?

Spinning off into tangent land, how do we go about convincing Linux distributions to market more? More people using Linux means more money into it, which benefits the most important market segment, me. I'll start:


If you haven't tried Linux yet, plug in Ubuntu, its like Windows only free, and the software is free and it comes with everything and works on more hardware than Vista!