Vista - eyebrow goes up: Perhaps MicroFox was right all along!

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535


I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux alone,
but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article mentions.. that
is the best OS that microsoft ever made....

"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
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> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535

yawn

The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released! Now XP is the
"BEST OS EVAR!!!" and Linux went nowhere.

Mike

> The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released!

Not from me.. Xp was the best ver of windows from the start and it is still
the best OS. I have always praised XP.

And noooo..... I am not resistant to change, as long as a new product is
better....


"Mike" <no@where.man> wrote in message
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> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:e%23zlQiDIHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>
> yawn
>
> The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released! Now XP is the
> "BEST OS EVAR!!!" and Linux went nowhere.
>
> Mike
>

How, exactly, does it hurt Microsoft if people who are not going to pay for
Vista anyway don't use Vista and go to some alternative OS?

Dale

"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
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> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>
>
> I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux
> alone, but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article
> mentions.. that is the best OS that microsoft ever made....
>

Dale wrote:
> How, exactly, does it hurt Microsoft if people who are not going to pay
> for Vista anyway don't use Vista and go to some alternative OS?
>
> Dale

Depends on how many people do that, of course! If it's 100s of millions,
you do the math. There was a day when a new Windows came out that I
rushed out to buy it. Not so anymore.

Alias
>
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:e%23zlQiDIHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>>
>>
>>
>> I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux
>> alone, but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article
>> mentions.. that is the best OS that microsoft ever made....
>>
>

Same Old story different year.
This is the same thing every time a new OS is released and has nothing to do
with real life.

Note: A life is something MicroBrain doesn't have.

"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
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> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>
>
> I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux
> alone, but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article
> mentions.. that is the best OS that microsoft ever made....
>

I think Vista is a great product. I actually have nothing to complain about
after having used it for the past 6 months on and off.

I do however question the adoption rate for businesses. I work for an
organisation that employs about 6k people. I remember it wasn't till this
year that we changed over to XP from NT4 and it was a huge undertaking by our
IT department. I cannot see us touching Vista in the next four-five years.
Which begs the question; how many businesses like ours are out there that
won't even look at Vista for years to come?


"MicroFox" wrote:

> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>
>
> I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux alone,
> but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article mentions.. that
> is the best OS that microsoft ever made....
>
>
>

That article does not say that people will go to Linux because of Windows
Vista; that article is actually responding to IDC saying people will go to
XP and Linux because of the product activation features in Vista, not Vista
itself. What you didn't point out is that the article ridicules the concept
that people will go to Linux because of the product activation features in
Vista.

The author of the article says, "Oh, the tears, I'm laughing so hard."
about the idea that Linux will gain traction because of the product
activation features in Vista.

"MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
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> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>
>
> I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux
> alone, but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article
> mentions.. that is the best OS that microsoft ever made....
>

Mike spake thusly on 12/15/2006 6:52 AM:
> "MicroFox" <-> wrote in message
> news:e%23zlQiDIHHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>>
>
> yawn
>
> The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released! Now XP is
> the "BEST OS EVAR!!!" and Linux went nowhere.

Linux went nowhere?

I agree with you. I work for a company with many thousands of desktops as
well. I have heard that we won't be considering Vista for 3 or 4 years
which I think is pushing it. I think it will be 5 years or more. But that
is because Vista is such a big change and there will have to be a lot of
testing and a lot of applications rewritten. And thank goodness for that -
on two fronts:

1. I am a developer. I am going to be very busy rewriting those
applications
2. Those applications need to be rewritten. There are a lot of things in
the old apps that hinder improvements in business. We can provide better
business services to our customers if we apply what we know now about their
processes compared to what we knew 10 or 15 years ago about their processes.
It is hard for the business units to commit to updating their processes and
software when they already have something that gets them by. Vista, in its
time, will be the driving force behind a major improvement in process and
business software worldwide!

Dale

"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A9519B83-74FB-419D-9FCA-20B2F9E3B5AF@microsoft.com...
>I think Vista is a great product. I actually have nothing to complain about
> after having used it for the past 6 months on and off.
>
> I do however question the adoption rate for businesses. I work for an
> organisation that employs about 6k people. I remember it wasn't till this
> year that we changed over to XP from NT4 and it was a huge undertaking by
> our
> IT department. I cannot see us touching Vista in the next four-five years.
> Which begs the question; how many businesses like ours are out there that
> won't even look at Vista for years to come?
>
>
> "MicroFox" wrote:
>
>> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/conte...129TX1K0000535
>>
>>
>> I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux
>> alone,
>> but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article mentions..
>> that
>> is the best OS that microsoft ever made....
>>
>>
>>