Flambe...
You are so right on everything you posted...
But what amazes me is that people cant see this, instead they are incredible
blind to this simple truth.
Even after me sitting here explaining to many whats going on they still
shrug it all off and continue marching to the
Vista startup tune.
Now thats more of a mystery to me, than how MS screwed up with vista...
"flambe" <> wrote in message
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> Cheen has it right: corporations and governements and other large
> purchasers are skipping Vista for rational reasons.
> Microsoft put out Vista with a 1990s mindset: users will put up with the
> defects because Microsoft says this is the latest and greatest. In issuing
> Vista Microsoft did not recognize that the computer market is quite mature
> at this point and will not change horses because Microsoft wants to sell a
> new OS. The cost-benefit ratio totally nukes Vista. XP/2000 are good
> enough for the tasks that corporations and individuals use computers for.
> Vista represents a spectacular misreading of the market. It is also a bad
> product, period. As an admirer of Microsoft, and ther aren't many of us,
> Vista just has me shaking my head: how could they get everything so wrong?
> Vista is Microsoft's Iraq. Microsoft has the power to keep pushing Vista
> onto the retail desktop but anyone who has a choice . . .
> Microsoft does not have the luxury of an Apple type hardware/software
> monopoly and a dedicated, but actually small, marekt niche that will
> abandon platforms and OSes at the whim of Steve "finally got NEXT on the
> desktop" Jobs. For reasons I cannot comprehend Apple users continue to
> believe what Apple tells them rather than their wallets and objective
> testing.
> Its a religion.
>