You fail at long-term memory, zealot. It took almost four years for XP to surpass the Windows 2000 + Windows 98 market share after it was released in 2001. It's entirely possible that situation won't play out the same way with Vista...
I'm aware of XP's dismal performance. I'm also aware of Vista's worse performance and can spot a trend. Wall Street was very forgiving with XP for six years and are out of patience. Vista is the end of the line for M$.
"M$" does not pay a large share of salaries as stock options. Please provide proof of this, seriously. That must be public knowledge, if it's true.... how this is different than any other corporation?
It's all public knowledge but so is free software. People don't always know what's public and government regulators are asleep at the wheel, or colluding.
1999 called, he wants his doom predictions back. "XP is not selling, everyone is sticking with 2000, Microsoft will go bankrupt soon" and so on and so forth.
Ballmer would be dancing in the streets if Vista was doing as well as XP did, but it's not. There's a steady decline here and Vista is right in line.
most businesses aren't planning on moving to Vista any time soon. My guess is that many of them will just skip it entirely if the next version of Windows, which presumably will be what Vista SHOULD HAVE been, is right around the corner.
. Their stock price is already too low to keep their talent from moving to Google and other competitors with products that can't be stolen. Vendors are going to revolt long before M$ can get another OS out the door and things will only go downhill from there. Good riddance.
Inside the box were the hideous remains of Linus's love. Cut off from community, it had was putrid and anything but alive. Bill himself did not look much better but he continued his gloat at the visibly nauseated Torvalds.
Gates: It's perfect. I am Envy and you are Vengeance.
Linux: Keep your boxed bits Bill, no one wants them. Ha ha, what a stupid scheme.
At this point, Stallman arrives and cuffs the deranged Gates.
those were some of the worst Photoshopped images I've ever seen.
They were made like QDOS, the Quick and Dirty Operating System M$ has made it's fortune shoving in everyone's face. Think old Bill would like to buy these too?
microsoft has just posted record breaking profits and sales revenue beating the analysts in the both the last two quarters
In an inflationary economy, anything less than "record breaking" is a decline. Declines are just fine for most businesses, but M$ pays a large share of their salary in terms of stock options and depends on perpetual growth to keep going.
how the register managed to spin that against vista would be amazing if it wasn't so transparent.
If it's transparent, tell me what's wrong with it. The fact is that Vista's release made no difference to M$'s bottom line, despite it's cost. At the very least, M$ has a return on investment problem because their OS no longer pays for it's creation. At the very worst, the lack of growth makes M$'s loss of power evident. They can't make money off the upgrade treadmill anymore and are out of room for growth.
The upgrade train is out of steam. M$ has lost it's ability to force broken new crap onto it's customers. There is nothing subtlety about Vista and Office 2007's push. Vista obsoleted 95% of the PCs on the market at release and came with a GUI harder to figure out than KDE. Office 2007 not only foist a new file format on a market striving for sane standards like ODF, it pushed a brand new GUI. People don't want these things and have rejected Vista. M$'s position is going to get worse as their channels continue to revolt and $200 laptops running free software flood the market.
Good bye M$. The world will be a better place without your NDAs, format wars and legislative corruption.
Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face.
Ah, but the more fundamental observation is that M$'s new OS did not drive sales or growth. As noticed by The Register, M$ has managed to grow despite Vista but not by much.
I've got a few images to help people like you get the idea. You will have to adjust your bay image settings to remove your corporate blinders, because someone marked these images as offensive within seconds of their post. Study carefully:
As Vista tanks, so does M$'s option pyramid scheme. They are already missing their own expectations, soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them.
The incident occurred last July, but he said obtaining casino records took longer than expected.
"Vinnie, I keep telling you we can't say your wife's fur coat was lost in the slot machine. All these otha losses are OK, but the coat claim will have to go into the fire sale next month."
Why not let the punishment fit the crime? They give you a data-scrambling virus, dose them up with mercury. They give you a virus that infects others, we give them herpes. Etc, etc...
So what does Bill Gates get? While some of his data scrambling has been accidental, much is intentional. The upgrade treadmill alone has cost more than any virus or trojan and it hits those who try hardest! Sabotage of other company's software has also cost millions of man hours. The problem with your method of punishment is that it must just suck to be Bill Gates. How can you get any crazier than to sit around dreaming of global software domination, smear campaigns and other strangeness M$ gets up to at his command?
there's no way in the h to the e to the double hockey sticks that I'd ever enable any kind of wireless anything in our data center.... my boss's business is about minimizing risk, and wireless networks even inside a data center is not minimizing risk.
Your network is on the internet. That and any non free software you have are bigger threats than sftp over wireless.
The thoughts and whims of two appointed officials only constitute due process in dictatorships. My browser search seems to have nailed the order rather well:
No matches found for 'democracy'.
I'm glad they did not try to justify this with the worn out phrase, "bringing democracy to Iraq," but saddened that they no longer try to pretend. Democracy and rule of law are not things we are exporting. We are importing tyranny instead.
The list is arbitrary and the enforcement is arbitrary. You would think they would have to at least make some kind of show trial before putting you out of business and on the streets.
This is no longer about terrorism, it's about control. You can only imagine what this will do for free speech. Not only won't you find Al Jazeera on US cable or broadcast TV, they are liable to lose any property the US can get it's hands on. The same thing can be said for any US citizen who would dare raise their voice against the administration.
Arbitrary proscriptions, exile and seizure of property are hallmarks of tyranny and we now have all three and things will get worse without drastic and immediate change. "Terrorist" lists are proscriptions that do everything but murder the proscribed. You can't travel or get a job if you end up on the list or have a name that's similar. This is really a form of exile but you can also be "extraordinary rendered" out on a whim and kept out of the country by the same. Now we have arbitrary property seizure. With these things in place, it won't be long before we have all the freedoms of Citizens of the Third Reich or Stalin's USSR.
the perfect Hi-Fi quality you are expected to get out of a century old phonograph?
Surprise, surprise, listen to the fine samples. The first collection sounds like it was recorded yesterday. The technique is unbelievably excellent. This is very good news for music preservation.
You realize, don't you, that this gives big dumb companies the ability to shut down their competition? They enter into an exclusive deal with the Chinese factory and then forbid knock offs and all sales below retail price. They can set that retail price just below what you could sell the same thing using US labor, but drop it when required. All of the benefits of China's slave labor will then go to a small group of people. Their lawyers will be bigger than yours, so you will never see justice.
The Supreme Court flushed 100 years of law down the toilet with a half assed decision that will create a flood of stupid litigation like the story details. It's half assed because the 5 strong majority made the ridiculous claim that SOMETIMES these kinds of agreement are AOK and can be enforced. The philosophical hypocrisy is obvious but the full shut down of internet competition is not to people who may never have bought something from ebay. The decider will be a court and that provides no justice at all in the fast paced world of the internet. How many months can any of you go with all your means of doing business shut down? Big business will use this to crush mom and pop retailers, so you can expect yet another round of vertical consolidation. There's no way the courts will be able to keep up with all of the complaints and only the larger retailers will be left.
McDisneySoftMart is very happy about this indeed. The malls will overflow again as people forget about online shopping. Welcome back to 1970, where the best deal in town are at Sears but now all the shit is made in China. Hey, you have to be authorized to sell stuff from China, don't you know?
It could be people. You have to feed the algae somehow. This is another benefit of global warming floods that the Vivoleum people have already thought of.
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Microsoft changed their compensation structures along with everyone else after the Enron/Tycho/Worldcom debacles. That was... hmm, I think 2002 maybe.
Yeah, it's hard to entice people with worthless paper but I did miss the memo. What else do they have to keep people from leaving for Google?
You fail at long-term memory, zealot. It took almost four years for XP to surpass the Windows 2000 + Windows 98 market share after it was released in 2001. It's entirely possible that situation won't play out the same way with Vista ...
I'm aware of XP's dismal performance. I'm also aware of Vista's worse performance and can spot a trend. Wall Street was very forgiving with XP for six years and are out of patience. Vista is the end of the line for M$.
"M$" does not pay a large share of salaries as stock options. Please provide proof of this, seriously. That must be public knowledge, if it's true. ... how this is different than any other corporation?
It's all public knowledge but so is free software. People don't always know what's public and government regulators are asleep at the wheel, or colluding.
Can't you just smell it? Ah, spam in the can.
Yes, it's MicroSoft. They tell you what to expect in advance with wiener name.
1999 called, he wants his doom predictions back. "XP is not selling, everyone is sticking with 2000, Microsoft will go bankrupt soon" and so on and so forth.
Ballmer would be dancing in the streets if Vista was doing as well as XP did, but it's not. There's a steady decline here and Vista is right in line.
most businesses aren't planning on moving to Vista any time soon. My guess is that many of them will just skip it entirely if the next version of Windows, which presumably will be what Vista SHOULD HAVE been, is right around the corner.
M$ won't last that long
. Their stock price is already too low to keep their talent from moving to Google and other competitors with products that can't be stolen. Vendors are going to revolt long before M$ can get another OS out the door and things will only go downhill from there. Good riddance.I'm sure those who named new version of Windows are not smart enough to register domain name prior to announcing it.
They are going for "7.com"
Inside the box were the hideous remains of Linus's love. Cut off from community, it had was putrid and anything but alive. Bill himself did not look much better but he continued his gloat at the visibly nauseated Torvalds.
Gates: It's perfect. I am Envy and you are Vengeance.
Linux: Keep your boxed bits Bill, no one wants them. Ha ha, what a stupid scheme.
At this point, Stallman arrives and cuffs the deranged Gates.
FIN
those were some of the worst Photoshopped images I've ever seen.
They were made like QDOS, the Quick and Dirty Operating System M$ has made it's fortune shoving in everyone's face. Think old Bill would like to buy these too?
microsoft has just posted record breaking profits and sales revenue beating the analysts in the both the last two quarters
In an inflationary economy, anything less than "record breaking" is a decline. Declines are just fine for most businesses, but M$ pays a large share of their salary in terms of stock options and depends on perpetual growth to keep going.
how the register managed to spin that against vista would be amazing if it wasn't so transparent.
If it's transparent, tell me what's wrong with it. The fact is that Vista's release made no difference to M$'s bottom line, despite it's cost. At the very least, M$ has a return on investment problem because their OS no longer pays for it's creation. At the very worst, the lack of growth makes M$'s loss of power evident. They can't make money off the upgrade treadmill anymore and are out of room for growth.
The upgrade train is out of steam. M$ has lost it's ability to force broken new crap onto it's customers. There is nothing subtlety about Vista and Office 2007's push. Vista obsoleted 95% of the PCs on the market at release and came with a GUI harder to figure out than KDE. Office 2007 not only foist a new file format on a market striving for sane standards like ODF, it pushed a brand new GUI. People don't want these things and have rejected Vista. M$'s position is going to get worse as their channels continue to revolt and $200 laptops running free software flood the market.
Good bye M$. The world will be a better place without your NDAs, format wars and legislative corruption.
Deviate_X provides fanboy irony:
Its amazing how people can get facts so wrong when its practically written in your face.
Ah, but the more fundamental observation is that M$'s new OS did not drive sales or growth. As noticed by The Register, M$ has managed to grow despite Vista but not by much.
I've got a few images to help people like you get the idea. You will have to adjust your bay image settings to remove your corporate blinders, because someone marked these images as offensive within seconds of their post. Study carefully:
As Vista tanks, so does M$'s option pyramid scheme. They are already missing their own expectations, soon they will be missing Wall Street's, then it's all over for them.
A well funded competitor.
"Vinnie, I keep telling you we can't say your wife's fur coat was lost in the slot machine. All these otha losses are OK, but the coat claim will have to go into the fire sale next month."
My biggest fan would have me point to a link proving the relative insecurity of non free software. I think he should simply look around.
Why not let the punishment fit the crime? They give you a data-scrambling virus, dose them up with mercury. They give you a virus that infects others, we give them herpes. Etc, etc...
So what does Bill Gates get? While some of his data scrambling has been accidental, much is intentional. The upgrade treadmill alone has cost more than any virus or trojan and it hits those who try hardest! Sabotage of other company's software has also cost millions of man hours. The problem with your method of punishment is that it must just suck to be Bill Gates. How can you get any crazier than to sit around dreaming of global software domination, smear campaigns and other strangeness M$ gets up to at his command?
there's no way in the h to the e to the double hockey sticks that I'd ever enable any kind of wireless anything in our data center. ... my boss's business is about minimizing risk, and wireless networks even inside a data center is not minimizing risk.
Your network is on the internet. That and any non free software you have are bigger threats than sftp over wireless.
The thoughts and whims of two appointed officials only constitute due process in dictatorships. My browser search seems to have nailed the order rather well:
No matches found for 'democracy'.
I'm glad they did not try to justify this with the worn out phrase, "bringing democracy to Iraq," but saddened that they no longer try to pretend. Democracy and rule of law are not things we are exporting. We are importing tyranny instead.
The list is arbitrary and the enforcement is arbitrary. You would think they would have to at least make some kind of show trial before putting you out of business and on the streets.
This is no longer about terrorism, it's about control. You can only imagine what this will do for free speech. Not only won't you find Al Jazeera on US cable or broadcast TV, they are liable to lose any property the US can get it's hands on. The same thing can be said for any US citizen who would dare raise their voice against the administration.
Arbitrary proscriptions, exile and seizure of property are hallmarks of tyranny and we now have all three and things will get worse without drastic and immediate change. "Terrorist" lists are proscriptions that do everything but murder the proscribed. You can't travel or get a job if you end up on the list or have a name that's similar. This is really a form of exile but you can also be "extraordinary rendered" out on a whim and kept out of the country by the same. Now we have arbitrary property seizure. With these things in place, it won't be long before we have all the freedoms of Citizens of the Third Reich or Stalin's USSR.
the perfect Hi-Fi quality you are expected to get out of a century old phonograph?
Surprise, surprise, listen to the fine samples. The first collection sounds like it was recorded yesterday. The technique is unbelievably excellent. This is very good news for music preservation.
The ever present AC troll begs:
Please make some more jokes with inside references.
Sure, after all I'd do anything for my fans.
Vista Tanks, PC Guy Somehow Survives
or
For fanboys the big Vista ticket is a matter of pride, to be had at any price.
You realize, don't you, that this gives big dumb companies the ability to shut down their competition? They enter into an exclusive deal with the Chinese factory and then forbid knock offs and all sales below retail price. They can set that retail price just below what you could sell the same thing using US labor, but drop it when required. All of the benefits of China's slave labor will then go to a small group of people. Their lawyers will be bigger than yours, so you will never see justice.
What happened to the first sale rights?
The Supreme Court flushed 100 years of law down the toilet with a half assed decision that will create a flood of stupid litigation like the story details. It's half assed because the 5 strong majority made the ridiculous claim that SOMETIMES these kinds of agreement are AOK and can be enforced. The philosophical hypocrisy is obvious but the full shut down of internet competition is not to people who may never have bought something from ebay. The decider will be a court and that provides no justice at all in the fast paced world of the internet. How many months can any of you go with all your means of doing business shut down? Big business will use this to crush mom and pop retailers, so you can expect yet another round of vertical consolidation. There's no way the courts will be able to keep up with all of the complaints and only the larger retailers will be left.
McDisneySoftMart is very happy about this indeed. The malls will overflow again as people forget about online shopping. Welcome back to 1970, where the best deal in town are at Sears but now all the shit is made in China. Hey, you have to be authorized to sell stuff from China, don't you know?
You just might find more tritium in the clouds than closer to the ground, but I don't think there's enough.
It could be people. You have to feed the algae somehow. This is another benefit of global warming floods that the Vivoleum people have already thought of.
I'm not suggesting we turn one of the most densely populated places in the world into a big pond, but think of the airline potentials!
If you include the population you save a lot on fertilizer. Vivoleum has met it's match.