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   XPost: alt.windows-xp, microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment,   
   microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support   
   XPost: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general   
   From: greegor47@gmail.com   
      
   Microsoft's big opportunities to sell new versions of   
   Windows used to accompany hardware 6x faster   
   than the previous hardware.   
      
   This entails huge costs, much greater than the   
   mere cost of computers and Windows.   
      
   Adapting or replacing old, expensive or proprietary   
   software is a huge expense, as is any retraining   
   caused by such changes.   
      
   But these huge expenses were seen as   
   worthwhile because of the 6x speed increase.   
   Those days are over.   
      
   The applications that pay the bills for large   
   corporate users are things like order entry,   
   order recall, inventory, database, telephone   
   services scripts (Oracle) and word processing.   
      
   One outfit has about 150 computer workstations   
   in one room alone, plus about 30 more among   
   offices and operation center.  But they have   
   about 25 such locations.  Upgrading from XP   
   would offer them no advantage whatsoever.   
      
   Even though an operating system is crucial   
   for a computer, it is nonetheless a minor fraction   
   of the overall cost.  If Microsoft is going to force   
   that MASS of old computers to be replaced with   
   no real advantage and for no real reason aside   
   from the marketing needs of Microsoft, it becomes   
   a bit like the tail wagging the dog.   
      
   What does Microsoft get per new OEM computer   
   with Win8?  Maybe $30?   Yet they expect to   
   force old systems to be scrapped and new computers   
   which provide no actual advantage to be purchased   
   at about $700 per system??  Just to fulfill Microsoft's   
   MARKETING NEEDS??   
      
   To force corporate customer service centers to   
   landfill/scrap all of those WinXP-Pro computers   
   by cutting off revised SECURITY UPDATES   
   is blatantly a MARKETING PLOY by Microsoft.   
      
   And not a very nice one.   
      
   Cutesy tiles instead of icons?  Big deal.   
      
   How about that Android, eh?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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