- Apple supposedly bringing out cut and paste for iPhone! So what?
- Cisco brings out what they call a server-computer.
- SXSW conference appears to have overloaded the local 3G network from too many iPhones. Ha.
- Meanwhile Apple Mac sales down 16-percent. Decline will continue, they say.
- Creepy robot runway model developed.
- MSFT looks to have a release candidate for Windows 7 in May.
- Intel pulls license from AMD.
- Opera Turbo in the news.
- Inventor of the Web conned online.
- Oracle gives up on MySQL.
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#20 Could be. I remember a few years ago when MS was going to redo the architecture of word docs so that the data & macro code areas where merged. Idiots, after we explained that this would require that AV/security products would have to scan the entire doc and people would drop using Word, they changed back. Sometimes I wonder if they take drugs most of the day rather than code.
QB,
Here is the problem. Go back on this very forum and look for posts I made around the release of Vista. You will see that my estimations of how Vista would be released were EXACTLY correct. My prediction was, people would not upgrade, they would however buy a new PC with Vista installed. That is EXACTLY what has happened with Vista.
I suggest that you are the one delusional about Vista and its place in the market.
Also, you must be using fosstard-o-sphere numbers because that doesn’t reflect the reality I see IRL day to day at all.
The only delusion here is your own.
#21,
You are now firmly in the minority of tech workers who don’t deploy Vista on the desktop in the enterprise. The newest statistics I could find were from more than a year ago when 60% of business PC’s were selling with Vista installed.
Both idiots,
As my users see and use office 2007 they all want to switch to that from whatever version they are currently using.
Special note on security: You are paranoid about everything else, so why not be paranoid about that? LOL, I havent had a virus issue in 5 years (something like 100 computers over 5 different locations). I don’t run any third party virus checker on my desktop anymore.
Good luck with your careers and that 90′s sensibilities of what computers are and how they are used.
# 22 GregA said, “You are now firmly in the minority of tech workers who don’t deploy Vista on the desktop in the enterprise.”
Nope. Out of >100,000 seats in corp serviced, less than 10% are running Vista. Sorry, auto stats sent by the installed apps don’t lie. MS might but not reports generated from the desktop.
#23 Paddy-O, you’re pretty close based on Microsoft’s own reporting. The “sales” figures what-his-name are reporting above are flawed since most IT department reimage the machine on delivery so it could OS/2 for all they care. The best data is renewed support license numbers (Paddy numbers) which is what Ballmer quotes and more accurately reflects installed base. Anything else would violate the customer’s licensing agreements.
I have no idea on consumer numbers, but I’m sure GregA will tell us EXACTLY what those are.
BTW, for the record I secretly am trying to destroy Microsoft with misinformation. Luckily GregA has found me out and now I’ll have to weave my devious plans somewhere else. Meanwhile, I’ll go back to Visual Studio since it looks like my TFS build ran successfully on checkin.
# 24 QB said, “I have no idea on consumer numbers, but I’m sure GregA will tell us EXACTLY what those are.
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Hope he factors in the large % of consumers that downgraded to XP after they got that new Vista PC home…
Mac sales were down 16%, but of course, they are up and down depending on new product cycles.
We (as a production chain) were ready to buy about U$14000 worth of MacMini’s, MacPro’s and iMac’s in January, ended up waiting for the new ones till now, and will now will spent about U$33000.
They are mostly replacing PC’s, which are turning out to be very expensive to run. According to one of the IT guys, if one PC is offline for 8 hours it will make the U$120 price advantage to MacMini disappear. Well, some of the PC laptops had been out of service up to 3 weeks and all the desktops have had down times more than 2 days in one year.
# 26 ZZman said, “Well, some of the PC laptops had been out of service up to 3 weeks and all the desktops have had down times more than 2 days in one year.”
Either you are buying crap H/W, your IT guys are incompetent OR you are running Vista…
$$$$i think wen t comes to appearance, vista is cool….But wen we see it’s performance,it’s disappointing in low end architectures. Windows 7 is a BLEND OF BOTH!.
#27
I agree with everything but Vista. Why all the Vista hate. I’ve been running Vista on all my hardware since beta and it works great. I didn’t say it was perfect but all OSes have their flaws.
I do however think Windows 7 is better than Vista.