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Skriven 2006-04-03 09:27:56 av Adam (1:379/45)
  Kommentar till text 10456 av Geo (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Prisoner of Redmond:
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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"@the field.near the bridge">

Geo wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"@the field.near the bridge"> wrote in
> message news:443050ba$1@w3....
>
>
>>>Yup.    Or they are working against their customers' needs, as in
>>>selling out their customers to the media industry.
>
>
> Personally, I think most people are too stupid to realize what is going on
> in this regard.
>

In software terms possibly. In Harware/money terms probably not i.e. when their
newish top end machine ain't "vista capable" lots will simply say sod it....XP
is good enough for me.

I think the MS fan boys will be the only ones actually willing to put Vista
onto an existing machine. The real problemo comes courtesy of the steady growth
in people's useage of laptops. No way to pop the chip or plonk in a new GPU
there.



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>>Or when frankly they are selling something which noone wants to buy.
>
>
> the question is why won't people want to buy it.
>
> think about this for a second, people bought PC's because their friends had
> PC's and it let them share programs, take that sharing away and there is no
> advantage to having the same OS as everyone else. (this is why people chose
> PC's over Macs). In fact moving to a free OS where sharing is encouraged
> takes on a whole new appeal.
>

Yes.....also it's replacement only nowadays. i.e. the west is a "mature" market
& the east etc is headed towards linux simply coz of the WTO.

Not many companies are going to do a Win95/ Y2K complete redo of their machines
for vista.

Ditto home users.

In fact the biggest threats to vista on the home machines are

A) The increasing use of laptops & their lack of upgradability B) The
increasing capabilities of consoles (XBox 360/PS3 etc).

Adam

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