To me, the Yahoo article was written by someone that didn't do their
homework... Take away UAC and it's no different than Vista? Flip3D & a
pretty interface being the only other reason for an upgrade? Sounds like
someone didn't research, or possibly even install, Windows Vista.
As far as lackluster sales... More sales are from the OEM sector than from
people rushing out to buy an upgrade. With a lot of users running older PC's
with hardware that just won't run Vista, there is no reason for them to
upgrade. XP works fine with their P4 2.4, 256MB RAM... They'd spend a lot
just upgrading the PC and buying Vista. So, if and when they need more
power: they buy a new PC and throw the old one away (or give it to the
kids). Simple reason for that. Once more and more home users upgrade or buy
new PC's, the corporate world will start upgrading (and with the release of
Longhorn Server) to Vista. Little to no learning curve, as they already run
it at home.
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> "Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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>> The reasons mentioned in those articles are FUD, DRM I mean come on
>> debunked months ago, printers on XP machines not working? Get real,
>> there's a 6 year old printer right here hooked up to an XP machine over
>> the parallel port working fine from Vista.
>>
>> Windows Vista is far from sinking. According to
>> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2 Windows Vista in its
>> first month on sale over took Linux, Windows NT and Windows ME. At the
>> rate its going it'll overtake Windows 98 in the next 2 weeks or so. Even
>> if it slows drastically it'll still overtake Mac OS and Windows 2000
>> easily by the end of the 3rd quarter.
>>
>> May be you should check the definitions on the word "sinking".
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>> Paul Smith,
>> Yeovil, UK.
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
>> http://www.windowsresource.net/
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>> "Pete" <Pete@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:etvpZgSXHHA.1396@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> The word on the street is that Vista is sinking like a rock:
>>> http://www.dailytechnobabble.com/200...g-like-a-rock/
>>>
>>> http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/18085
>>>
>>>
>>> Just for you MVP's...
>>>
>>>
>>> -Pete
>>>
>>>
>>
> So, they/we struck a nerve.
> Just giving you the information from the pro's!
> My take: "Worst Release Ever"
> You should be more in touch.
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