On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:12:28 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Did you see where Mac has doubled their market share since the
introduction of Vista. That is double the market share, not double the
units.


There are lots of people who like Macs but I'm not one of them. To me
they are too cutesy, over priced, over hyped and way too Apple
centric, which is of course the way Apple wants it. I'd probably get
serious about Linux before switching to a Mac.

Obviously not all consumers are as dumb as MS thought they were.

Not at all. Those who have been through the upgrade cycle a few times
are beginning to get quite savy about it. My friends and neighbors
tend to regard me as "their computer expert" and when I advise them to
wait, most nod in agreement. That would change if I heard some cogent
and compelling reasons to upgrade, and if the compatability issues
were largely behind us. I'm still running a lot of relatively old
software that does a good job at what I purchased it for. If it isn't
compatible with a new operating system, what's the point of upgrading
everything unless there are really good reasons? As it stands right
now you not only need a big hardware upgrade to run VISTA, but
probably need to upgrade your application suite as well. I'm
perfectly happy to let the early adopters sort things out, report on
their experiences, and help Microsoft get it debugged. Micrsoft
should compensate their beta testers in my opinion.