Re: [opensuse] legalities

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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.

There are quite a few organisations that have recently completed moving
from NT to W2K, or have not moved to XP because W2k provides the
functionality they need and seen no reason to change. What Vista
provides does not really fit a lot of commercial environments, and until
someone provides a commercial, must have, killer app that only runs on
Vista, M$ is going to find it difficult to persuade commercial clients
to adopt it.

The costs in retraining staff, new equipment deployment, and migrating
critical systems is causing some organisations to look very closely at
alternative strategies; in the main completely rebuilding the IT
infrastructure every 4 years or so does not make much sense to many (if
it aint broke why fix it), M$ may have shot themselves in the foot and
given desktop Linux in the enterprise an unintended boost at the same
time. If they push upgrading too hard they could find some large
organisations going elsewhere. On the other hand M$ may get wise and
commit to a stable user interface that does not radically change between
OS versions (my god! was that pig flying past :-) )....

In the non-commercial world Vista really depends on the future of the
general purpose PC. Outside of more specialist niches such as power
gaming and computer hobbyists, and SOHO use; an increased use of minimum
maintenance and intervention consumer electronics products may begin to
become more important over time and general purpose PC sales may
stagnate or decline.

Most non-technical people are completely fed up with machines which do
not do what they want, when they want to do it, for reasons they do not
understand (whether they be MS, Mac or Linux based)... eventually they
will wise up and start voting with their wallets...

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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup
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