Article - Vista SP1 fails to spark migration

"Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its
much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from
users."

more...
http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/22...park-migration

occam wrote:

> "Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its
> much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from
> users."
>
> more...
> http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/22...park-migration

What a stupid article. Anything to get a buzz headline. Look at the
source of their "survey'!
Pathetic!
Frank

The first problem with this article is
"But even the offer of free support for using installing Vista Service Pack
1 (SP1) and tools to lower implementation cost, the user response has been
one of stony indifference."

Support from Microsoft for their Service Packs have always been free.

"occam" <> wrote in message
news:#...
> "Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its
> much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from
> users."
>
> more...
> http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/22...park-migration

"occam" <> wrote in message
news:%...
> "Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its
> much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response from
> users."

Gee, SP1 has been available for what - 2 whole weeks? Plus, not even
everyone CAN get it yet.

Yet we already have lame articles proclaiming it to be DOA! What did you
expect - 800 million users all to switch simultaneously?

Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in 1
year. Someone must be using it somewhere!

I wonder if the same whiners will be here a year from now, when Vista is
around 35% share (and XP around 55%), still proclaiming "Vista is a bust!"?

"Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
news:...

> Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in 1
> year. Someone must be using it somewhere!

But how many are running?

Because it is more like Microsoft Tax on PCs, we will never know the number
and it is unlikely Micro$oft will ever come clean on real hard numbers of
how many get reformatted with XP or other.

And yes, I suspect they quietly know. Each time your PC goes for an update
check there goes the CPU-ID....pretty easy to get some rough numbers I
suspect. And I bet the numbers make ME look like a success.

Bob Campbell wrote:
> "occam" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> "Microsoft's latest efforts to persuade customers to upgrade to its
>> much-maligned Vista operating system have met with a cool response
>> from users."
>
> Gee, SP1 has been available for what - 2 whole weeks? Plus, not even
> everyone CAN get it yet.
>
> Yet we already have lame articles proclaiming it to be DOA! What did
> you expect - 800 million users all to switch simultaneously?
>
> Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in
> 1 year. Someone must be using it somewhere!
>
> I wonder if the same whiners will be here a year from now, when Vista is
> around 35% share (and XP around 55%), still proclaiming "Vista is a bust!"?


People that are so ignorant like you really make me mad.

Vista was not bought by consumers by clear choice.

A) Sold by force (especially true in the first months you couldn't get a
PC with XP on it, even now many models have only Vista (yuk))
B) And sold by ignorance, since people presumed the new version of windows
would be better. Many don't even know that a new windows is out so they
get whatever is given to them.

There is no bigger whiner than a whiner who wants people to stop
insulting vista.
Its not gonna stop. In fact criticism is on the rise since after seeing
that SP1 solves only a few problems the big bashers will step in.
People who were waiting to see if SP1 would clean up vista will now
unleash their vile towards this pathetic operating system.

Either get used to it, or stop whining, or continue whining but
acknowledge you are doing it.



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Canuck57 wrote:
> "Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>> Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in 1
>> year. Someone must be using it somewhere!
>
> But how many are running?
>
> Because it is more like Microsoft Tax on PCs, we will never know the number
> and it is unlikely Micro$oft will ever come clean on real hard numbers of
> how many get reformatted with XP or other.
>
> And yes, I suspect they quietly know. Each time your PC goes for an update
> check there goes the CPU-ID....pretty easy to get some rough numbers I
> suspect. And I bet the numbers make ME look like a success.
>
>

Its all about psychology. People follow what the masses are doing. If
word gets out that everyone is avoiding vista and no one is buying it,
then even less will buy it. Thats why Microsoft NEEDS to continue lying
and misleading the consumers. I bet they did the same with windows ME,
that really was ripped and replaced with windows98 99% of the times.
I'm sure then never mentioned that! They only stated forced sales
numbers on new computers mostly. But if you even consider that there is
a natural growth of computer sales each year, the vista numbers even are
even more pathetic.

I don't know why losers- whiners like this Bob Clamball come here..
but they really **** me off with their ignorance.

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"Canuck57" <dave-> wrote in message
news:PNsHj.4681$Cj7.1840@pd7urf2no...
>
> "Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>> Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in 1
>> year. Someone must be using it somewhere!
>
> But how many are running?
>
> Because it is more like Microsoft Tax on PCs, we will never know the
> number

We know the numbers. They are right here:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11

Again, Vista IS being used.

"pro-testor" <pro-> wrote in message
news:47ee5041$0$26011$.. .
> Canuck57 wrote:
>> "Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>
>>> Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in
>>> 1 year. Someone must be using it somewhere!
>>
>> But how many are running?
>>
>> Because it is more like Microsoft Tax on PCs, we will never know the
>> number and it is unlikely Micro$oft will ever come clean on real hard
>> numbers of how many get reformatted with XP or other.
>>
>> And yes, I suspect they quietly know. Each time your PC goes for an
>> update check there goes the CPU-ID....pretty easy to get some rough
>> numbers I suspect. And I bet the numbers make ME look like a success.
>
> Its all about psychology. People follow what the masses are doing. If word
> gets out that everyone is avoiding vista and no one is buying it, then
> even less will buy it. Thats why Microsoft NEEDS to continue lying and
> misleading the consumers. I bet they did the same with windows ME, that
> really was ripped and replaced with windows98 99% of the times.
> I'm sure then never mentioned that! They only stated forced sales numbers
> on new computers mostly. But if you even consider that there is a natural
> growth of computer sales each year, the vista numbers even are
> even more pathetic.
>
> I don't know why losers- whiners like this Bob Clamball come here..
> but they really **** me off with their ignorance.

Actually, with my MS Vista experience really done. I come here because of
the Bob Camballs. Seriously. I am here to spread the word of alternatives
and to debunk the mindless BS and FUD from the MS Brown Shirts. Some are
liars, some are just plain stupid and uninformed sheep. But they do mislead
the public with their FUD war on Linux/UNIX.

And I am feeling kind of ripped off at Vista. I have run MS-DOS 2.0 through
to Vista. What a disappointment Vista is.

But we are reaching people this time, as many more feel the same way. I am
really surprised too that this time businesses are coming around and openly
chastising the MS FUD.

"Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Canuck57" <dave-> wrote in message
> news:PNsHj.4681$Cj7.1840@pd7urf2no...
>>
>> "Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>
>>> Remember folks - over 100 million sold. Double OS X's 7 year share in
>>> 1 year. Someone must be using it somewhere!
>>
>> But how many are running?
>>
>> Because it is more like Microsoft Tax on PCs, we will never know the
>> number
>
> We know the numbers. They are right here:
>
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11
>
> Again, Vista IS being used.

Pretty pathetic actually. Want to overlay W95 or XP over that so we can
compare adoption rates?

Given Vista is essentially bundled MS-Tax that is a pathetic adoption rate.

Care to show us those charts?

I expanded it to 2 years, looks like MacIntel has gone for 0.08% to 4.39%.
A staggering 5487% growth rate over 2 years!

But that chart is cooked:
"We use a unique methodology for collecting this data. We collect data
from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of
live stats customers."

I would like to see googles take on the numbers. I wish they would publish
them. Maybe someday they will.