Even the Sales People Don’t Like Vista
Since there appears to be no news today, I decided to share something that happened to me today. I accompanied a friend on a trip to Office Depot to get a new power cord for a laptop (not mine.) My friend asked the sales person who found the power cord if it would be better just to get a new laptop, since the cord was so expensive. He turned the computer over, saw the XP license sticker, and replied that at least this laptop had XP, not Vista. Needless to say, I was quite surprised to hear a sales person implying that one should prefer XP to Vista. Of course, as we all know, there’s a better solution to this problem.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Here is a better solution to this problem.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Ooops….Here it is.
December 27th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Why can’t we finally admit that Vista is another Windows Me and move on, wait for the new release.
A few years ago I made quite a bit of income, upgrading Win Me machines to Windows 2000, if they were fast enough, or Windows 98 SE if they were too slow.
My prediction is that the same will happen to Vista.
Or maybe Linux will get a lot of publicity with KDE 4.0 and accelerate the Linux adoption rate. One can hope.
For people to initially like Linux, we have to turn up the eye candy!! That will get people in retail stores to buy Linux based machines.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:18 am
How can we STOP OEMs from FORCING Vista down our throats?\
XP official stop date is February of 2008, what can we do to extend XP as an available OS?
I say we should always have an ALTERNATE choice of OS when purchasing a new computer from a well known OEM.
I know, install GNU/Linux as a dual-boot on all systems so people can actually have a choice. Or at least force OEMs to make XP available as a choice for new PCs.
Shannon VanWagner
http://healthysystem.blogspot.com
December 28th, 2007 at 12:38 am
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December 28th, 2007 at 1:15 am
I was planning to retire this year but if there are 100 million Vista machines that need a good OS, I might stick around and install Debian for a couple of years.
February 2008… Did not M$ extend the deadline to June?
December 28th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Xp got a stay of execution last year, so it is supposed to disappear from the shelves by July I think.. Unless the powers that be decide that they need to have t available a bit longer
One thing that could force Microsoft’s hand is if the cheap PC market flourishes. Products like the Eee and the gOS running walmart PC might run Vista, but run and run well are two different things.
December 28th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Actually deadline should have been shifted to december
December 28th, 2007 at 9:11 am
PCWorld currently has its annual predictions story running. One of the predictions is that MS will stay XP’s execution another six months, to the end of 2008.
Given the flourishing low end market typified by the eeepc and gpc as JB already mentioned, and the fact that I’ve already seen the tech press pointing out that MS is pushing a just about expired eXPrivacy solution for these things, my reaction was “Another six months? That’s a pretty safe bet. I’d give it 18 months anyway, to the end of 2009, at which point the march of technology combined with a scrambling MS just /might/ have something other than eXPrivacy to offer on these things.” It’ll probably still be a rebadged eXPrivacy, but it’ll be enough different to allow MS to officially kill eXPrivacy… but not before 2Q2009 at the earliest. That’s a bolder prediction, but I think more likely, altho the end-year 2008 prediction might be an interim step.
Duncan
December 28th, 2007 at 10:15 am
I think, in quite some time that is, more and more people will realise that linux systems work just as good (much better) as MS systems and shall swith to os like fedora, centos, ubuntu… at home, while the companies that need secure and reliable servers already use linux more than other systems. Ofcourse there are the home yousers, guys that play games and simillar activites will take longer to learn that linux can offer them just as much as ms, if not eaven more. So i think that linux users must talk about their positive experience with linux, wite about this on their blogs, spread the word. Microsoft is a company that works for profit and doesnt care about quality and end user satisfaction, and more poeple that realise this, closer linux is to taking over the markets, But thats just my opinion,
ciao
December 28th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I feel that Vista is the shot-in-the-arm that linux needs to advance itself in the world market. That Microsoft is engineering its own demise appears to be the plan with this OS. Well, that may be a little extreme but one wonders.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I have technical support function and dislike Vista. My own OS is Ubuntu Linux. Still waiting for the first good news about Vista.
December 28th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Microsoft Windows Vista is not designed to running well on cheap PC and laptops. It designed to walking well on any PC.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Games still drive sales. I put together a Linux system for an acquaintance, who gave it to his son. 2 months later, he wiped it off and put WinXP on it because Linux wouldn’t run Guitar Hero. (or at least he couldn’t make it run and didn’t ask me to try.)
It’s not that Linux systems need to support better eye-candy, because everything that Vista was _supposed_ to do when it was first announced, Linux already has.
Nothing on the ‘Net cannot be viewed/used/worked on a Linux system just as well as on Windows. Sure, there are legacy applications, but those who depend upon legacy applications are also depending upon “legacy” versions of Windows because they work that way, rather than being porting nightmares trying to make them work on Vista.
If makers of such games as Guitar Hero would release for Linux/OpenGL, and you and I know they could if they wanted to, that would be the bitter end of Microsoft in the home.
Sadly, big business is a bureaucracy. The paltry sums they spend on Microsoft products, even if it seems astronomically expensive to you and I, give them peace of mind.
Small businesses, however, are very ripe for the cost savings in hardware and software that Linux promotes. Robert Pogson, don’t retire! Come up with a SMB server-on-a-bootable-CD/DVD and make a fortune. Then, hire one or two good support people and let them do all work. :^)
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