WaIIy wrote:


Duh, that's because the normal consumer hasn't a clue and is forced to
buy it on a new PC.

I wonder in those stats, how many individual copies were purchased.

MS will not reveal those numbers.

Vista is one step closer to the MS 'almost' takeover by MS.

"The answer is controversial, but designed into Vista are several things
equally controversial: 1) Digital Rights Management, 2) Protected Video
Path, and perhaps most controversial, 3) ..." a revocation mechanism
that allows Microsoft to disable drivers of compromised devices..." (
source, Wikipedia). The bottom line seems to be that, for the first
time, Microsoft is now able to dictate hardware design, giving it
unprecedented control over the entire computer industry."

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/arch...t_to_whom.html

You can carry water for Vista all you want, but you are obviously below
average in operating system analysis.

BTW, did your Vista come with a new computer or did you buy it outright
and if so, for what reason.

There is almost no Vista acceptance at the corporate level.

"PARIS, Sept. 17 -- A European Union court ruled Monday that Microsoft
must share software information with rivals and pay a record $690
million in fines for quashing competition from smaller companies."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...ogy/techpolicy

Wayne,
While they did sell twice as many copies of Vista, the general public
purchased twice as many computers. IT depts put their new computer
purchases on hold because they did not want to be beta testers.

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.

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

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.