Re: Microsoft brand is in deep decline

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:46:47 -0500, DFS wrote:

> Christopher Hunter wrote:
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> We can always count on Chris Hunter for some howlers.
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>
>> They are losing both - "market penetration" of M$ in (for example)
>> China is effectively zero. China is possibly the /biggest/ market on
>> the planet. Now that Dell, HP, Asus and many other manufacturers have
>> told M$ that they're not going to comply with the illegally
>> restrictive marketing methods that M$ have hitherto employed.
>
> Did they now? We missed the memo.
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>
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>> The biggest selling laptop on the planet right now (the Asus EEE) runs
>> Xandros Linux. This was a deliberate decision - partly because it
>> made the product much cheaper without the M$ licence, and partly
>> because the Xandros OS just works better on that hardware.
>
> According to Asus, the public demands Windows on the EeePC.
>
> http://blog.laptopmag.com/eee-pc-to...-style#more-544
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> It's nothing new - the world has always chosen "expensive" Windows over free
> Linux.
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>> M$ have lost /any/ credibility they ever had - probably with the
>> release of Windoze 2000 - when those of us "in the know"
>
> Yeah, you and 8 other disgruntled turkeys.
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>
>
>> realised
>> that it was the same old 1991 kernel with new eyecandy added on top.
>> XP was found to be the same thing yet again, and Vista just took XP
>> and added DRM.
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> And dozens of other features and apps and new technologies
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>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featur...o_Windows_Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techni...o_Windows_Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securi...o_Windows_Vista
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window...ng_technologies
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window.../O_technologies
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manage...o_Windows_Vista
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>> Vista has been shown to be totally unsuitable for any serious
>> business use (there goes 60% of their market)
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> Do you have to be so stupidly wrong about everything you say?
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08...-fastest_1.html
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>> and has the same old
>> vulnerabilities, instabilities and outrageous price.
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> Lie on the vulnerabilities,
> http://blogs.csoonline.com/windows_...rability_report
> http://secunia.com/product/13223/?task=advisories
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>
> Lie on the instabilities:
> Results 1 - 10 of about 731 for "Vista is more stable than XP"
> Results 1 - 10 of 10 for "Vista is less stable than XP"
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>
> Lie on the price.
> Vista Home Premium SP1 upgrade, $95,
> http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Vista...06779634&sr=8-2
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> XP Pro SP2 upgrade, $199,
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16837116196
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>
> Lie lie lie lie lie... it's the "advocate" way
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>
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>> Even M$ admit that Vista's a dog,
>
> It's a veritable breed champ compared to the Linux mutt.
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>
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>> and have brought forward the release
>> of "Windows 7" by two years.
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> Sure to be another big hit among the public, just like most Microsoft
> operating systems since 1990.
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>
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>> /This/ version will be largely "bought
>> in", as M$ no longer employ any useful programmers
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> "...SharePoint ...had attracted 17,000 user companies, and eclipsed $1
> billion in sales..."
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> "Late last year, an IDC survey of 300 users found 61% were deploying
> SharePoint enterprise-wide"
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> http://www.networkworld.com/news/20...int.html?page=1
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> One MS software product generates $1 billion in sales. It makes the puny
> Linux/OSS universe look like peanuts.
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>
>
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>> - their staff are
>> great at meetings, but incapable of doing any real, useful work.
>
> Is that why they fired you?
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>> M$ are having to buy in the kernel, HAL, I/O and much of the rest of the
>> core of the OS.
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> Prove any one of these lies, let alone all of them.
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>
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>> /Many/ companies have refused to assist M$ at /any/ price!
>
> How many? Which many?
>
>
> You were wrong or lied about everything in this post, as usual.
> Now run away, as usual.

A Linux advocate lying?

Impossible!!!!



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