XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: flatfish@marianatrench.com   
      
   On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:48:32 +0000, Homer wrote:   
      
   > Verily I say unto thee, that Gordon spake thusly:   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   > Sure, but then it was that 4 years ago when Vole released Fista, and was   
   > still that a year and a bit ago when they released Fista 7, and yet here   
   > we are, one decade later, with 60% of Windows users still using it, and   
   > the rest probably wishing they were, instead of the dysfunctional and   
   > incompatible bloatware preloaded onto whatever equipment they bought.   
   > Meanwhile Vole is losing acolytes faster than the Moonies, and two very   
   > expensive attempts to reinvent the Church of Windows have spectacularly   
   > failed. Third time a charm? I don't think so.   
   >   
   > Yes, Microsoft will eventually have to pull the plug on the XP Luddites,   
   > but at what cost to its userbase?   
   >   
   > Tricky.   
      
   And all the while desktop Linux remains free yet has so few users.   
      
   It must really suck to be a Linux advocate.   
      
   How do you advocate something virtually nobody wants?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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