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Gartner Analysts Warn That Windows Is Collapsing
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.'"
until Netcraft "confirms it"[tm].
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Unfortunately, my meat printer is jammed. I think I should have stuck to flank steak; in retrospect, it appears that hamburger wasn't such a great idea.
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You mean the almost-constant nag screens? Are you sure you mean the almost-constant nag screens?
They forecast that the share price would drop, which it did, and then they bought it cheap just like lots of other companies. Some people complained that about it but Gartner forecast they would have accidents unless they went to live on a desert island. And sure enough, those that didn't leave did have accidents. No one messes with Gartner now.
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it has also been reported that Apple (APPL) is still very near to death's door.
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Creating a lean palm version would be a million miles away.
Hardly. They could just do this on their source code to make it smaller
s/.*linux is the devil.*\n//gi
That should drop about 50% of their code size
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Nah.
Windows will die like a big ole dinosaur, and its death throes are gonna mess up its local ecosystem real bad.
Stay well clear of that tail. There's no mind controlling it any more.
And... well... there's no pleasant way to say this, but it needs to be said. So WARNING: NEXT PARAGRAPH MAY EVOKE UGLY GRAPHIC IMAGERY!
When a dinosaur dies like Windows is dying, it not only thrashes around a lot, but all its sphincter muscles relax and contents of its bowels and bladder spew forth, driven by the pressures of the terminal seizure. You want to be on high ground and up wind when that happens.
Of course not. Gartner is a think tank for hire, their bread and butter is outlandish predictions. The only news here is that Gartner is predicting bad things for Microsoft. Was Microsoft late on their payments?
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I think you misspelled "DRM".
Every expression is true, for a given value of 'true'
Thank God for evolution.
Dear god! If you are going to lie at least make it somewhat within the boundaries of reality. The processor you have in your machine was released by Intel in August 2002, yet you claim to have in a EIGHT YEAR OLD computer. I am sure that Intel would love to find out how you got a machine with a processor from 2 years in to the future. That has to be some amazing feat to reach across the barriers of time to grab yourself a hot new processor. Does Stephen Hawking regularly show up at your house to see what other amazing feats you can accomplish?
Programming: Its not just a job - its an indenture.
Parent Post wishes to ask if "you mean the almost-constant nag screens?".
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Milligram-Hertz? You should be expressing it in Kilogram-Megahertz!
Um, the original claim that provoked this was that Vista would run well on an 8 year old machine.
I think I'd rather believe initdeep got hold of a P4 two years before Intel released it than believe that.
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See spun, as a 4 digit, you got the joke.
As a 5 digit, Sancho just can't understand the humor because he hasn't been around long enough.
As a 6 digit, I have no clue what both of you are even talking about and I'm surprised at myself for being cheeky enough to post at all.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
As a 6 digit, I have no clue what both of you are even talking about and I'm surprised at myself for being cheeky enough to post at all.
Know your place! You're a high 6 digit.
I for one welcome the mighty year of linux!
At last! My CHIP Magazine from 1998 is still right - TEN YEARS LATER!
You and I know there's no UID-based class system, but don't try to explain that to these high-digit kids, because you know they just won't get it. ;)
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
If you want fewer digits, I have this X-acto knife... now, give me your hands...
I went and installed Windowblinds and a Vista skin on our XP machines. Now users think we have Vista for all intents and purposes, and I get to support XP. It's win-win!