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Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing

Posted by Soulskill on from the the-sky-is-falling-if-you-have-enough-ram dept.

spacefiddle writes "Computerworld has an article about a presentation from Gartner analysts in Las Vegas claiming that Windows is 'collapsing', and that Microsoft 'must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been.' Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald provided an analysis of what went wrong with Vista, and what they feel Microsoft can and must do to correct its problems. Larry Dignan of ZDNet has his own take, and while he agrees, he suggests that the downfall of Windows will be slow and drawn-out. As an interesting tangent to this, there's also a story from a few days prior about Ubuntu replacing Windows for a school's library kiosks, getting good performance out of older hardware. '[Network administrator Daniel] Stefyn said he was "pleasantly surprised" to discover that the Kubuntu desktops ran some applications faster with Linux than when they ran on Windows. An additional benefit of Windows' departure from student library terminals saw the students cease 'hacking the setup to install and play games or trash the operating system.'"

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  1. Why Kubuntu? by Thelasko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why not use Xubuntu or Fluxbuntu for older machines? That's what those distributions are intended for.

    I'm probably going to get flamed for this.

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  2. Re:Important lines from TFA by nicklott · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's true, anyone who disagrees with slash-think is astroturfing. TOW THE PARTY LINE GODDAMN YOU! CONFORM HARDER!

  3. Re:Here's what you guys need to do... by Tatsh · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    People don't like it when their software intimidates them and they are more than willing to pay good money to avoid it whenever possible.

    Well I say, 'too fucking bad for them'. These are the people we don't want using FOSS. IMO, not everyone is welcome. Sorry.

  4. Re:Really? by jedidiah · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The lowest end machines told today with Vista only have 512M RAM on them.

    You really need to get out more.

    Even the "high end" lowend machines with the dual core processors will still have only a Gig of RAM in them.

    Dunno if that's good enough for Vista Crapultimate because my Vista machine never got a chance to run Vista.

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  5. Re:Windows vs Ubuntu by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really? Even on the Vista preloaded laptops with "Only drivers for Vista, which NDISWrapper won't load and there are no Linux drivers available for it yet" laptops?

    You know, like the ones from many manufactures such as Dell and HP.

    Now, please, STFU and pull your head out of your ass.

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