[LINK] Even thieves don't want Vista

[David Goldstein]

Ahh, the usual Microsoft bashing exercise on Link... 

Vista may still have its day -- just like XP (eventually) did
Twenty-one months after its initial release, what do we know about Windows Vista? That home users hate it, businesses are uninstalling it and -- according to Gartner -- it's proof that the 23-year-old Windows line is "collapsing" under its own weight. ... But all of the griping about Vista and instant nostalgia for XP covers up a dry, statistical reality: XP itself was slow to catch on with users -- maybe even slower than Vista has been thus far. For instance, in September 2003, 23 months after its release, XP was running on only 6.6 percent of corporate PCs in the US and Canada, according to data compiled by AssetMetrix, an asset-tracking vendor that was later bought by Microsoft.
http://computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1926251180

Or you could check out one of Jack Schofield's latest columns at http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/08/26/the_truth_about_windows_vista_exposed_at_last.html which refers to another article at http://www.tweakguides.com/VA_1.html.

But then, this would spoil everyone's prejudices here...

DG



----- Original Message ----
From: David Boxall <david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au>
To: Link <link at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, 29 August, 2008 10:51:56 AM
Subject: [LINK] Even thieves don't want Vista

<http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/27/linux-netbook-thieves-ignore>
>
> *ELONEX WEBBOOKS* that are preloaded with Ubuntu Linux and currently 
> featured at Carphone Warehouse in Bracknell, UK are apparently is such 
> high demand that thieving opportunists stole a display model.
>
> The netbook display item was lifted from a shopping mall Carphone 
> Warehouse store in broad daylight by using bolt cutters to sever the 
> stranded wire tiedown.
>
> Several larger laptop PCs preloaded with Microsoft Vista sitting in 
> the same shop display area were reportedly left unmolested in the heist.
>

With a Blu-Ray drive and reasonable hardware spec's, I thought the 
Medion 8828 at Aldi was a good buy at less than $900.  Unfortunately, it 
runs Vista.  Microsoft survived Windows ME, so I guess Vista won't kill 
it either.

-- 
David Boxall                    |  I have seen the past
                                |  And it worked.
                                |               --TJ Hooker

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