[LINK] Even thieves don't want Vista

Brendan Scott brendansweb at optusnet.com.au
Fri Aug 29 21:03:55 AEST 2008


David Goldstein wrote:
> 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...

or you could read the comments to the Schofield article...





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