"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:vqh544525eginmae9foba0ksll5pts1kul@4ax.com...
> 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
>>
>>
>>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.
>


In China, they pirate Vista. I doubt that many use Linux.

Re. Vista being the best, like all new releases of anything, it needed work
and, in any event, suggesting that something is the best yet does not mean
that it is without issues. Many Vista issues were down to a lack of driver
support, but yes, it was bogged down with some of its own. Needless to say
that Vista has moved on but the FUD remains..

I assume that Steve B has filed your resume away where the sun doesn't
shine, otherwise we would no doubt be seeing quantum improvements coming out
of Redmond.. :-)


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