Re: Vista adoption failing.

George Graves wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 07:42:50 -0700, Steve Carroll wrote
(in article <noone-1FAA58.08424129092007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

In article <C32309F4.92C17%CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Snit <CSMA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Edwin" <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> stated in post
5KOdnc2LDdxdJWDbnZ2dnUVZ_rWtnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx on 9/28/07 7:29 PM:

I don't understand how you arrive at that conclusion.
Why isn't anybody surprised?

XP hasn't suddenly got any less bad,
But people want to hang onto this "bad" software?
Given the choice of XP and Vista, many people prefer XP. This does not
indicate that XP is the best option they have.
Given the choice of Windows and Mac OS X, more people chose Windows.
No doubt. Have you seen the market share? This is not, of course, to say
that people are making an informed choice.
Feel free to prove that people are making the same 'uninformed' choice over and over and over any time you'd like to.

Easy. The lions share of PCs are OBVIOUSLY bought by corporations. The wage slaves that use them have made NO choice with regard to computer platform.

The lion's share of PCs are probably not bought by corporations. Don't most homes, especially of people under 40, have at least one PC in them?

Steve
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