XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: flatfish@marianatrench.com   
      
   On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:25:02 +0000, Gordon wrote:   
      
   > On 01/03/11 18:16, Homer wrote:   
   >> Verily I say unto thee, that Gordon spake thusly:   
   >>> On 01/03/11 11:02, Homer wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Other than that, the only reason for number 8 is to try and split   
   >>>> another chunk off the XP diehards, all 60% of them. Maybe by the time   
   >>>> number 10 comes out, in about 2018, they'll have squeezed the XP   
   >>>> share down to under half of all Windows users.   
   >>>   
   >>> XP comes out of ALL support in 2014 - so I can't see all the corporate   
   >>> users staying with it...   
   >>   
   >> Yeah well, wasn't XP supposed to have died once already, before it was   
   >> magically resurrected to save Vole from the backlash against Fista, and   
   >> to squeeze some monopoly juice into netbooks?   
   >>   
   >   
   > Absolutely - but it's getting pretty tired and long in the tooth now   
   > though, isn't it?   
      
   Yet it still has and always did have more users than desktop Linux ever   
   will.   
      
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