eyebrow goes up: Perhaps MicroFox was right all along!

[MicroFox]

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/cont...people_to_linux.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535


I would change that point 9 too... it will drive people not to linux alone,
but to every alternative to vista.. like xp as the article mentions.. that
is the best OS that microsoft ever made....

 

[Mike]

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/cont...people_to_linux.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

yawn

The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released! Now XP is the
"BEST OS EVAR!!!" and Linux went nowhere.

Mike

 

[MicroFox]

The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released!

Not from me.. Xp was the best ver of windows from the start and it is still
the best OS. I have always praised XP.

And noooo..... I am not resistant to change, as long as a new product is
better....

 

[Dale]

How, exactly, does it hurt Microsoft if people who are not going to pay for
Vista anyway don't use Vista and go to some alternative OS?

Dale

 

[Alias]

How, exactly, does it hurt Microsoft if people who are not going to pay
for Vista anyway don't use Vista and go to some alternative OS?

Dale

Depends on how many people do that, of course! If it's 100s of millions,
you do the math. There was a day when a new Windows came out that I
rushed out to buy it. Not so anymore.

Alias

 

[Gary]

Same Old story different year.
This is the same thing every time a new OS is released and has nothing to do
with real life.

Note: A life is something MicroBrain doesn't have.

 

[Dale]

That article does not say that people will go to Linux because of Windows
Vista; that article is actually responding to IDC saying people will go to
XP and Linux because of the product activation features in Vista, not Vista
itself. What you didn't point out is that the article ridicules the concept
that people will go to Linux because of the product activation features in
Vista.

The author of the article says, "Oh, the tears, I'm laughing so hard."
about the idea that Linux will gain traction because of the product
activation features in Vista.

 

[Scott]

Mike spake thusly on 12/15/2006 6:52 AM:

yawn

The EXACT same thing was proclaimed when XP was released! Now XP is
the "BEST OS EVAR!!!" and Linux went nowhere.

Linux went nowhere?

 

[Dale]

I agree with you. I work for a company with many thousands of desktops as
well. I have heard that we won't be considering Vista for 3 or 4 years
which I think is pushing it. I think it will be 5 years or more. But that
is because Vista is such a big change and there will have to be a lot of
testing and a lot of applications rewritten. And thank goodness for that -
on two fronts:

1. I am a developer. I am going to be very busy rewriting those
applications
2. Those applications need to be rewritten. There are a lot of things in
the old apps that hinder improvements in business. We can provide better
business services to our customers if we apply what we know now about their
processes compared to what we knew 10 or 15 years ago about their processes.
It is hard for the business units to commit to updating their processes and
software when they already have something that gets them by. Vista, in its
time, will be the driving force behind a major improvement in process and
business software worldwide!

Dale

 

[Scott]

MicroFox spake thusly on 12/15/2006 7:33 AM:

Not from me.. Xp was the best ver of windows from the start and it is still
the best OS. I have always praised XP.

And noooo..... I am not resistant to change, as long as a new product is
better....

I've been very happy with XP. I've only used it for a few years. Prior
to that I'd been using 2000 (since late 2000). Stability-wise they're
pretty much equal. GUI-wise, XP is a definite improvement. Vista is a
HUGE improvement GUI-wise and I like the features. I will upgrade, I
just don't know when.

Meanwhile I'll spend my time in Ubuntu Linux, Vista RC2 and occasionally
Windows XP.

 

[Richard Urban]

Yep. See how Microdork places everything out of context. (-:

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If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Richard Urban]

How come that up until last year you were still using Windows 95 and saying
how bad Windows XP was? (-;

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Alias]

That article does not say that people will go to Linux because of
Windows Vista; that article is actually responding to IDC saying people
will go to XP and Linux because of the product activation features in
Vista, not Vista itself. What you didn't point out is that the article
ridicules the concept that people will go to Linux because of the
product activation features in Vista.

The author of the article says, "Oh, the tears, I'm laughing so hard."
about the idea that Linux will gain traction because of the product
activation features in Vista.

I'm checking out Linux because of the
you-are-a-thief-until-you-prove-otherwise trip.

Alias

 

[Richard Urban]

What percentage of the global market does Linux command.

Hell man - you can get it for ***### FREE ###*** and people should be
rushing to download it. Still all versions combined are less than 1% of the
total market

Hell, they can't even GIVE it away.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Alias]

What percentage of the global market does Linux command.

Hell man - you can get it for ***### FREE ###*** and people should be
rushing to download it. Still all versions combined are less than 1% of
the total market

Hell, they can't even GIVE it away.

Reliable statistics on Linux are impossible. I have one copy of Ubuntu.
I can copy it and give it to 100 people and not you, nor anyone else,
would know about it.

The reason it isn't as popular as Windows is due to the fact that Dell,
HP and the other Big Computer Boys don't promote it and the reason they
don't promote it is because the monopolist Microsoft won't let them
unless they want to forgo being a Windows OEM.

The other reason is the learning curve one has to go through to use
Linux and the techie reputation that it has.

Alias

 

[Dale]

And Linux literally is free! I'm glad you posted that though; I was
wondering how Linux compared to the Mac OS. 1 per cent is definitely
nowhere!

Dale

 

[Dale]

Product activation in no way makes me feel like I am being accused of being
a thief. But WMP always offering to sell me the track (that already exists
in my library) that I am currently listening too; well, that's a different
story.

Dale

 

[Alias]

Product activation in no way makes me feel like I am being accused of
being a thief.

But that's what it's doing. I guess you won't react until Windows tells
you that you're running a pirated copy that isn't pirated. Maybe then
you'll get it, maybe not.

But WMP always offering to sell me the track (that

already exists in my library) that I am currently listening too; well,
that's a different story.

Dale

Is this a new feature of WMP11?

Alias

 

[Richard Urban]

Excuse me Alias!

Major web sites certainly have a handle of what operating system and browser
are being used to access their web sites. Now, you are going to say that
maybe it is only the "major" web sites.

My answer is "Hell man, don't people who use Linesux go to CNN, WABC, CNET,
etc. Or are they so shallow that when once they place Linesux on their
computer that they only go to the web sites that are listed on the home page
of Firefox and the links that Firefox placed in the favorites area.

It is well documented, through interpolation of statistical polls, how many
people are using Linesux.

By the way, I have Ubuntu 6.01 on a VMWare virtual machine that I go into
occasionally. I certainly have the opportunity to compare apples with
apples, and Linesux comes out rotten on bottom of the basket

Flame away!.



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Regards,

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Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Alias]

Excuse me Alias!

Major web sites certainly have a handle of what operating system and
browser are being used to access their web sites. Now, you are going to
say that maybe it is only the "major" web sites.

My answer is "Hell man, don't people who use Linesux go to CNN, WABC,
CNET, etc. Or are they so shallow that when once they place Linesux on
their computer that they only go to the web sites that are listed on the
home page of Firefox and the links that Firefox placed in the favorites
area.

It is well documented, through interpolation of statistical polls, how
many people are using Linesux.

By the way, I have Ubuntu 6.01 on a VMWare virtual machine that I go
into occasionally. I certainly have the opportunity to compare apples
with apples, and Linesux comes out rotten on bottom of the basket

Flame away!.

I have no doubt that the stats for Americans for Linux is low, after all
they voted for Bush. I doubt, however, that El Mundo or El País is
polled, much less http://www.internautas.org/.

Alias