Re: Golden Moment Lost For Making "Vista Killer" Linux or OS-X - What a WASTE
- From: luminoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luminoso)
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 19:06:20 GMT
On Sat, 05 May 2007 18:17:20 GMT, "M. Trimble" <user@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2007 06:02:41 +0000, Luminoso wrote:
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MS can't even give away Winders in China. Vista is offically shunned
by business and the US government. It looks as if MS has finally
screwed itself. The ONLY way it's selling Vista is by inducing major
PC makers to include it on new systems - and Dell just said "No
Thanks".
Sucky is sucky. The latest Linux distributions are as "slick" as
Vista. Why pay, why put up with the DRM crap MS included in Vista so
it could screw you out of money later one ? If you want a nice PC,
try Kbubtu 7.04.
You overlook the minor detail that m$ hooked the educrats with cheap/free
hardware and software. The presence of m$ products in the schools has
served to effectively brainwash students into the 'there is but one God
and he is Bill Gates' way of thinking: no exposure to alternatives from
childhood on, and m$ has a virtual lock on those impressionable
buyers^H^H^H^H^H^H students. They'll go with what they know.
Well, in all honesty, Apple has always cultivated the educational
sphere for much the same reason - to get the custome ... er ...
students used to THEIR product. It's a pretty good business
strategy and the ethics are 'acceptable' if not anything to
sing and dance about.
MS however has not only sheer size but also a host of other
tricks to really "lock in" schools to their products.
That will likely start changing, slowly now, more quickly later. Mom and
Dad don't have mega-shaft at work, so they might stay away from it at
home. The kid sees the non m$ alternative at home, and either starts to
demand it at school - it's an obvious improvement over Vi$ta - or at
work, and may decided on not m$ when they are in position to make that
choice on their own.
Vista represents a stumble at a very bad moment. OS-X and linux
are now in a position to exploit any mistake MS makes. Businesses
are worried about getting locked into MS proprietary data formats
and the constant headaches of dealing with the virus/spyware
problems and the increasing costs of upgrades/licences/retraining.
Many of them are already using linux-based servers and that has
reduced their instinctive paranoia about anything "different".
Government is rightly concerned about the terrible security
problems with Winders, including Vista. It also suffers from
the costs of upgrades, licences and re-training personell. It
too has been phasing in linux servers with good results.
Foreign governments and businesses are even more worried about
becoming "slaves" to a US-based company. Many can't afford to
pay for Winders anyway. Linux is the logical way to go, and
we're talking a few of BILLION potential customers here. They
will help keep "alternatives" alive and well.
Now if Corel would port its latest office suite to linux and
support it ... beats the crap out of the MS suite and OpenOffice.
A business suite that slick and sophisticated would really
attract a lot of business customers to linux. One big fat
fly in the ointment is the sheer number of distros - all
too many of which are subtly incompatible with each other.
There really needs to be a "standard linux" or at least
just a few distros "for the masses". Vendors can cope
with that.
.
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