[geeks] Vista cost

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jan 28, 2007, at 5:49 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
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> The real fun idea is driver revocation.

[other MS stupidity removed]

My take is that MS knows that they will continue to own the desktop for 
the foreseeable future. Linux desktops are but a small part of the 
market, and will remain so for quite a while longer yet.

So they can do basically whatever they want without really losing 
market share.

Corporate and other volume licensees will stick with XP on the desktop 
(just like the 45-desktop church I am on retainer at will stick with 
XP/Office 2003 for quite some time).  Does MS care?  Heck no! - they 
are getting $x a pop for shipping 1 CD.

Anyone who is serious about server tasks is running Linux, Solaris, 
Win2003 (which doesn't have any of that protection crap).

Go to e.g. http://webhostingtalk.com - you will see that MS has lost 
the battle on the internet server side.

Go look at the lame Windows smartphones like the Q - I expect (should 
Apple execute even half-decently) they will die off too.

MS needs to milk the desktop market for several more years until they 
can figure out the next big thing to steal and market as their own.

--Patrick