On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:50:16 -0400, "Mike Hall - MVP"
<mikehall@remove_mvps.com> wrote:

>"Alias" <iamalias@NOSPAMPLEASEgmail.com> wrote in message

>> No, Mike, you don't understand the whole picture. Ubuntu and other
>> versions of Linux are taking off. If you can joggle your poor memory a
>> bit, when XP came out, you didn't see *any* posts about Linux in the XP
>> General newsgroup. No media was covering it and practically no major OEM
>> was offering it preinstalled. All that's changed and the reason is that
>> distros like Ubuntu are so user friendly, easy to install and easy to
>> configure and tweak.
>>
>> Alias
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>For now Linux is seeing better times, but Vista has hoisted the hardware
>requirements, and in a couple of years from now, many will have upgraded
>their computers. Vista will have improved enough that it is the force to be
>reckoned with, and then Windows 7 will release, easily able to run on the
>same hardware as Vista.

Vista will have improved enough?

Funny to watch fanboys change their tune as they constantly move the
goal posts. I though Vista was already the greatest version of Windows
ever. If so, why does it need to improve?

After all that was the song you guys were humming over a year ago.
However now that Vista has been out awhile and proved to be just
another bloated, poorly implemented, bug riddled, sluggish pile of
coding mistakes like every prior version of Windows before it was, you
now say wait to the next version. I'll say one thing good about you
Mike, you sure know how to repeat the party line issued from Redmond.

Microsoft has been saying the same thing for over two decades... just
wait for the next version of Windows, it will knock your socks off.
Sure, right. Only problem is I like tens of millions of others are
tired of waiting and being disappointed over and over again. People
are more seriously starting to look at alternatives to Windows.

>In the meantime, Linux will make inroads in third world countries where
>cheap equipment is all that can be afforded.

You really are clueless and dense on world events aren't you. Would
you consider China third world? Are you sitting down? Right now China
has over 300,000,000 MIDDLE CLASS citizens and that number is growing
at explosive rates. That's as many middle class as the entire
population of the United States. Are you aware Russia soon might have
more millionaires then there are in the United States? Their middle
class is exploding too. While Windows "sales" in China is a drop in
the bucket they already have more Internet users than in the United
States. Hint: Those people are running all those computers on
something, and it isn't paid for copies of Windows.

The reality is Microsoft's time in the sun is fading. That is why
Ballmer tried, but failed to take over Yahoo, to start building a new
cash stream since people are fed-up giving Microsoft piles of money
for one broken OS version after another.

Microsoft's other cash cow Office, has been equaled or surpassed by
FREE Office alternatives. That's not good news for Microsoft either.
Their two biggest product lines, Windows and Office are showing signs
of cracking.

You know what the biggest sign of Microsoft's pending doom really is?

Simple. That would be Bill Gates founder getting ready to throw in the
towel. His belly no longer burns for Microsoft. He's more than willing
to give Microsoft over to flimflam artists like Ballmer while he
starts to give away his billions. That surely can't be good for
Microsoft's future. No, not when the founder only 53 year old decides
he's had enough. Maybe he sees the writing on the wall clearer than
anybody.