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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
On 2/1/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
I'm not optimistic either. M$ is the 800-pound gorilla in computing
and people are going to buy Vista.
As a worker for the 800-TON gorilla, however, I can say that although
people may buy Vista, many really large government organizations are in
no hurry whatsoever. As it happens, the feds have not very much interest
in the alleged advantages of Vista (e.g., DirectX 10) and a huge
investment in the status quo. So huge, in fact, that it's not clear to
me that the NIH will be buying anything with Vista on it for quite some
time.
So this is not to say that lots of people won't buy Vista or that the
feds will shun it forever, just that there is no big rush to Vista at
the moment for many very large IT outfits, and I don't see this changing
very quickly.
Sure, but you know how this works. Microsoft has contracts with
manufacturers and they will be shipping new computers with Vista
installed. Many millions of these computers will be sold in the next few
years. Some commercial and government organizations will avoid Vista, but
most people will want it on their new computer because it is the newest
version of Windows.
Mike
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