<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a good time to push Linux. <br><br>Is there a "Linux in Business Conference" in the Detroit area?<br><br>David <br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles@compuware.com><br>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug@mdlug.org><br>Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 1:25:56 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mdlug] A big opportunity for Linux?<br><br>
> From: Michael Rudas<br><br>> Even if this is off by a substantial amount, at the very least this
is<br>> REALLY embarrassing to MS. The number of IT pros willing to look at<br>> alternatives (including Linux) is heartening.<br><br> Yeah, MS painted themselves into a corner here. Vista is *shockingly*
hungry for<br>resources, and doesn't really offer any substantial advantages over the
previous<br>version, XP. This holds for *both* of Windows' main markets, 'office
workers' and<br>'games'. I don't recall OEM's ever before demanding the ability to ship
the old<br>version of Windows (i.e. XP) instead of the new one. (They can't count
on Moore's<br>Law to help them too much, either... PC specs have hit a level where
even a cheap<br>PC has the capacity to do the kinds of things most people want PCs to
do. That<br>means the price for Windows is a significant, noticeable part of the
total price.)<br><br> MS has sunk a lot of money into Vista, and bet a lot of their future
technology<br>and marketing on it. If it doesn't take hold, a lot of their other
strategies (e.g.<br>media PCs and such) become irrelevant. They can't afford to put too
much effort into<br>XP support lest it steal oxygen from Vista takeup... and Vista takeup
is already<br>wheezing badly. But if they don't support XP, particularly
security-wise, it will<br>drive people away from XP. And since they don't want Vista, they will
look at other<br>alternatives... which are quite mature and capable of handling the
needs of the vast<br>majority of users.<br><br> So... it'll be interesting. Expect MS to fast-track the next version,
but their<br>development culture and codebase just is not suited to 'fast'
development. They're<br>targeting 2009 I hear, but expect 2010 at *absolute minimum*, and
that's only if<br>they dump features.<br><br> Sincerely,<br><br> Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317<br><br> "[B]eing able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more<br> than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."<br> - Eric Scott Raymond<br>The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only.
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