for the vista there is a better alternative named windows server 2008 which is vista with out content protection and for this reason working with 18% better than vista.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:58 PM Subject: Re: +[SurvPC] MS-Windows Vista No Longer Matters (fwd)
Well I guess those millions of users of Vista are those who use a cracked version, and that's why their number doesn't show anywhere. :-)I think I will never use Vista. Or just like XP, I will use it, if the next version of Windows will consume more resources than Vista and MS won't support XP.Octavian----- Original Message ----- From: "tribble" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> To: <blind-windows@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "bprogramming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Science, Technology, Mathematics, SCI-FI, and more." <sci-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: Fw: +[SurvPC] MS-Windows Vista No Longer Matters (fwd)Hey all -- What is your take on the following? --le----- Original Message --------------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:01:21 -0800 From: John Oram <norami@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: LifeRaft <survpc@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: LifeRaft <survpc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: +[SurvPC] MS-Windows Vista No Longer Matters http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/windows_vista_no_longer_matters.html October 26, 2008 7:15 PM Windows Vista No Longer Matters News Commentary. Did it ever?Make no mistake: Microsoft has moved beyond Windows Vista, which will becomeall too apparent during this week's Professional Developer Conference. Windows 7 is the future, and in many ways it's the present, too. Contrary to ridiculous assertions recently made by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Windows Vista is a flop. If businesses aren't buying Vista, after waiting six(now seven) years, it's no success. Yet, during the last day of the Gartner2008 expo 10 days ago, Steve asserted that Vista "has been extremely successful."A few days earlier, Steve boasted: "Vista is our best-selling product ever.So, if that takes too much getting over—we're not going to have products that aremuch more successful than Vista has been. We sold over 180 million copies inthe first 18 months, quite successful." Really? But who's buying this "best-selling" product ever? "We have 180 million users, mostly on the consumer market," Steve said in an Oct. 2 speech. Oh? Accordingto Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and David Smith, only about 10 percent ofenterprises have adopted Windows Vista. That's not a high number, particularly in context of the approximately six years between Windows XP and Vista. It's not surprising then that PDC attendees will hear whole lots about Windows 7 this week and very little about its predecessor. Windows 7 banners areplentiful enough, as are the sessions: Out of 194, 22 are dedicated to Seven and none to Windows Vista. It has leprosy, baby, and nobody wants to catchit.I Googled "PDC 2008," and one of the pages—not now available—is "UnveilingWindows 7 to the World."Vista is headed to as quick a death as Microsoft can give it. Someday soon,some gun-toting Microsoft executive will lead Vista out back and "Pop!" Netbookbuying trends and the sagging economy give Microsoft more reasons to want tooff Vista as soon as humanly possible. The signs are everywhere:The vanishing license count. Every quarterly earnings since Vista's release,Microsoft executives counted up the number of licenses shipped. There was nearsilence during last week's 2009 fiscal first-quarter earnings announcement.The number was 180 million three months earlier. It's now "What?" Microsoft'sfailure to toot "the number of Vista licenses" horn means something. Maybetheincrease wasn't that great, or maybe Microsoft is moving beyond Vista. I sayyes to both.Windows client income down. During the fiscal first quarter, the division'srevenue grew a paltry 2 percent year over year, but income decreased by 4percent. Microsoft has no tough year-ago comparison to account for the weakresults. By comparison, Business division revenue and income were up 20 percent and 23 percent, respectively. Microsoft attributed year-over-year Windowsclient income declines to sales of lower-cost versions in emerging marketsandon netbooks in mature markets. Considering that PC shipment growth was stillstrong during the quarter, Windows results forebodes Vista weakness.Increasing netbook sales. The product category is pure trouble for Microsoft because Windows Vista demands too much to adequately run on the hardware. So netbooks typically either ship with Linux or Windows XP Home. That netbook buyers would be satisfied with 7-year-old consumer XP is just about the onlycommentary necessary to understand Vista's market plight. According toMicrosoft, netbooks added 8 percent growth to otherwise flat U.S. PC sales during the third calendar quarter. The category is hot, but Vista is not andcouldn't be. Seven had better run well on netbooks and soon. "Windows. Life Without Walls." The marketing campaign should be called"Windows. Life Without Vista." If Vista is so successful, as Steve claims,thenwhy isn't Microsoft advertising the software? Rather, Microsoft is trying toget away from Vista, abandoning a brand that it already invested tens of millions of dollars promoting. Its absent role at PDC says it all. There are plenty of other signs: Continued OEM sales of XP downgrade licenses The aforementioned 10 percent enterprise adoption Apple's Mac market share gains (35 percent in U.S. retail revenue) Microsoft is moving beyond Vista to Windows 7. Windows Vista no longer matters. If it did: Enterprises would be buying it Consumers would be demanding it Microsoft wouldn't freak out about Apple's "Get a Mac" ads The hottest new computer category, netbooks, would ship with VistaMicrosoft would be aggressively advertising Vista, instead of trying to burythe brandDevelopers would be creating hunky Vista apps; instead, projects like YahooMessenger for Windows Vista are being abandoned I've long said that Windows Vista isn't a bad operating system. It's just not particularly better than Windows XP. Strange, then, that Microsoft isn't messaging Seven as being particularly better than Windows Vista. It won't be.Microsoft believes, with some justification, that Vista has major perception problems. The company clearly has decided that negative perceptions can't befixed. Hence, the diminished emphasis on Vista; starting tomorrow—and especially on Tuesday—an increased emphasis on Windows 7. By shifting emphasis to Seven, Microsoft is treating Vista perceptions mainly as a marketing problem. Vista deserved better market reception than it got. Strange, a few small improvements could have changed everything—like startup times. Everybody bitches about how long Vista takes to boot up or wake up from sleep. Last week, one of my longtime Windows buddies bought a MacBook. Yesterday we talked about startup times. He surprised me. He had already clocked startup times: 7 minuteson his Vista notebook and about a minute for the $1,299 MacBook. That's notscientific, but it needn't be. One user, one experience multiplied by 180 million Vista licenses is scientific enough. [Please send your tips or rumors to watchtips at gmail.com]. Posted by Joe Wilcox on October 26, 2008 7:15 PM __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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