Re: Vista adoption failing.

Steve de Mena <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Hayes wrote:
George Graves <gmgraves2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:02:15 -0700, Steve de Mena wrote
(in article <46ff49f6$0$20621$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

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?

Sure, but that person also has a PC at work that they DIDN'T buy. And
lots of people who have PCs at work don't have any computers at home -
especially in countries other than the USA. Employers buy most of the
PCs sold in the world by a longs shot.

Certainly where I work there's a steady programme of machine
replacement, thousands of PC have been purchased over the past few
years. They don't seem to last very long, these PCs, and they're only
office machines, yet the relatively few Macs seem to last much longer.

At my companies the past 10 years or so, the replacement policy for
computers was decided by Finance. At 3 years they are fully
depreciated and replaced, regardless of condition. Thats how the
onsite warranty is setup too. I think computers could easily go to 5
years these days.

Of course they could, but I guess the argument goes something along the
lines that it's cheaper to renew than mess about with repairing the
percentage that break.

Costs would also include disposal of old machines. In the EU there's now
strict regulations regarding disposal of old computers, and of course
there's the secure destruction of old hard drives to worry about. Maybe
some companies will re-examine the supposed benefits from this
continuous renewal policy, and add a year or two to the life of their
machines, benefitting the environment as well as their bottom line.

This continuous renewal cycle must surely skew PC deployment massively
in favour of the commercial sector.

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Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter
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