Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Thu Apr 11 13:04:51 CDT 2013
This is bad news for Microsoft. Its being reported today that PC sales dropped by 14% this quarter, Windows 8 is being considered a flop and Microsoft isn't able to make a meaningful dent in the mobile/tablet space. Chickens coming home to roost? - Hans On 2013-04-11, at 9:13 AM, Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> wrote: > > On 2013-04-11 3:00 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote: >> The following article attempts to scare the users of XP into using what? >> >> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/ok-so-stick-with-window >> s-xp-but-how-big-a-risk-do-you-run/1627?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&ttag=e101 >> >> Thousands of businesses failed to migrate from XP to Vista, for obvious >> reasons and now that they may have been willing to move to Windows7, >> Microsoft has removed any steps between XP and Windows8. Businesses are >> finding they have no where to go. Big business has no intension on embracing >> untried product with a dubious record so far. >> >> Just today a friend who works for a company called Soroc (they do all bank >> computer maintenance and installation), one I use to work for, says the >> banks are now seriously looking at moving their operation to Linux. >> >> If this is the case Microsoft may have made a major blunder in trying to >> force everyone to use Win8 by removing Win7. > > More than a blunder---continued abuse of their market power over their users. > > PB > > ----- > >> >> Even NASA is moving to Linux not Windows. ;-) >> >> https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/191-linux-training/711318-linux-fo >> undation-training-prepares-the-international-space-station-for-linux-migrati >> on >> >> Jim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com