Re: About one-fourth of new corporate computers to get Vista in 2008Q2

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:10:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:


> Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed


Linux: Free for 10+ years and still languishing at 0.6 percent of the
desktop market. It's 0.8 percent if you listen to the BBC. I think that
number is too high though.

Something is seriously wrong when an operating system and a zillion
applications can't be given away.

Is Linux really *that bad* ?


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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
<>
wrote
on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:04:44 -0400
<1liadee26zhw.1l7t5c597cjoj$.>:
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:10:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>
>> Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
>
>
> Linux: Free for 10+ years and still languishing at 0.6 percent of the
> desktop market. It's 0.8 percent if you listen to the BBC. I think that
> number is too high though.
>
> Something is seriously wrong when an operating system and a zillion
> applications can't be given away.
>
> Is Linux really *that bad* ?
>

Yes, it's absolutely horrid, as everyone well knows (and if
they don't you'll gladly tell them I reckon). That's why
Vista is proceeding at a 4.6 year linear adoption rate,
which for some reason doesn't quite match the 3 year
general depreciation rate.

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The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
> <>
> wrote
> on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:04:44 -0400
> <1liadee26zhw.1l7t5c597cjoj$.>:
>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:10:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
>>
>>
>> Linux: Free for 10+ years and still languishing at 0.6 percent of the
>> desktop market. It's 0.8 percent if you listen to the BBC. I think
>> that number is too high though.
>>
>> Something is seriously wrong when an operating system and a zillion
>> applications can't be given away.
>>
>> Is Linux really *that bad* ?
>>
>
> Yes, it's absolutely horrid, as everyone well knows (and if
> they don't you'll gladly tell them I reckon). That's why
> Vista is proceeding at a 4.6 year linear adoption rate,
> which for some reason doesn't quite match the 3 year
> general depreciation rate.

Obfuscation attempt at its finest.

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, relic
<>
wrote
on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:18:26 -0800
<47f26e5f$0$6129$>:
> The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
>> <>
>> wrote
>> on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:04:44 -0400
>> <1liadee26zhw.1l7t5c597cjoj$.>:
>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:10:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
>>>
>>>
>>> Linux: Free for 10+ years and still languishing at 0.6 percent of the
>>> desktop market. It's 0.8 percent if you listen to the BBC. I think
>>> that number is too high though.
>>>
>>> Something is seriously wrong when an operating system and a zillion
>>> applications can't be given away.
>>>
>>> Is Linux really *that bad* ?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, it's absolutely horrid, as everyone well knows (and if
>> they don't you'll gladly tell them I reckon). That's why
>> Vista is proceeding at a 4.6 year linear adoption rate,
>> which for some reason doesn't quite match the 3 year
>> general depreciation rate.
>
> Obfuscation attempt at its finest.
>

Perhaps. But clearly Vista is winning, and will win in
2012. By that time Windows 7 (9? 12?) will also be available,
and Microsoft will get its due again -- assuming we haven't
legislated Microsoft as a natural monopoly in the meantime.

(Hey, it worked for Ma Bell for many years.)

Meanwhile, Windows 7 will replace those ancient Linux
server relics (some of which are brand new), improving
performance for everybody and making standards bodies
obsolete -- for who needs standards when one has the
de-facto, time-honored, 90%+ monopoly that is Microsoft?
Everyone's using it.

And don't forget SilverLight, the brand new proprietary
high-performance casual game technology that's destined
to replace Flash.

Microsoft. Where did you want to go today?

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The Ghost In The Machine illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:

> Perhaps. But clearly Vista is winning, and will win in
> 2012.

Jesus Christ. We're talking about Operating system entering the
Olympics now. Aren't we?

Who gives a **** how many people use what? Who cares whether bloke a
thinks bloke b is a freak because he uses operating syatem y?

All of you twats are freaks.

--
Moog

"If this is gonna be that kinda party I'm gonna stick my dick in the
mashed potatoes"

Moog wrote:
> The Ghost In The Machine illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>
>> Perhaps. But clearly Vista is winning, and will win in
>> 2012.

> Who gives a **** how many people use what?

You are well-adjusted to life in a herd.

Matt illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
> Moog wrote:
>> The Ghost In The Machine illuminated alt.os.linux.ubuntu by typing:
>>
>>> Perhaps. But clearly Vista is winning, and will win in
>>> 2012.
>
>> Who gives a **** how many people use what?
>
> You are well-adjusted to life in a herd.

Do you think? The fact that I don't care what blithering usenet
posters use makes me "one of the herd"? The fact that I use what works
for me and make an informed and personal choice makes me one of the
herd?

Don't be so soft.

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"If this is gonna be that kinda party I'm gonna stick my dick in the
mashed potatoes"

Moog wrote:
> Who gives a **** how many people use what?

Moshe obviously cares.


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write the essay for me, and that person plagiarized!"
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On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:39:38 GMT, Wes Groleau wrote:

> Moog wrote:
>> Who gives a **** how many people use what?
>
> Moshe obviously cares.

Actually outside of COLA, or most advocacy groups, most people really don't
care.

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
<>
wrote
on Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:09:57 -0400
<>:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:39:38 GMT, Wes Groleau wrote:
>
>> Moog wrote:
>>> Who gives a **** how many people use what?
>>
>> Moshe obviously cares.
>
> Actually outside of COLA, or most advocacy groups, most people really don't
> care.
>

And they shouldn't. Most people's needs would probably
be adequately met by a custom web browsing mobile unit,
which can do Internet Explorer HTML, Flash, Silverlight,
and Java applets.

(I'd say HTML, but IE has some interesting extensions, among
them the Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions, detailed in
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533099.aspx ,
and the contenteditable= attribute in the <p> element,
which is Microsoft's answer to DAV, apparently.)

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