[opensuse] Re: legalities

Richard Creighton wrote:
Actually, M$ have recently announced that they are extending support for
XP, for some unknown reason people are not buying as many Vista copies
as M$ expected :-)

Few hundreds reasons per product.
Count is mostly 2 (Vista & MS Office) which comes out as one good computer
upgrade (no monitor and accessories).


Actually, from what I've seen in articles around, Vista wants
state-of-the-art equipment to run and much of the legacy equipment just
doesn't seem to want to run and a lot of people are balking at having to
buy new computers just to buy a new OS and it's new and improved bugs.
One nice thing about Linux....so far... is that it historically allows
people to almost run on their old 'junk' machines and still do useful
work. I hope this doesn't change any time soon even as it supports the
newer equipment, I hope the old boxes aren't forgotten.

I fully aggree.

But, as sad as it is, as a matter of fact, you cannot buy a new computer
without vista anymore. There are exceptions and there are business
machines that you still can order with XP, but in general, the new PC
market "is vista".

In consequence, within a year or two we will be living in a "mostly
vista" world, whether we like it or not.

Kind regards
Eberhard

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