XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: jedi@nomad.mishnet
On 2011-03-16, amicus_curious wrote:
>
>
> "JEDIDIAH" wrote in message
> news:slrnio1in1.o0a.jedi@nomad.mishnet...
>> On 2011-03-16, amicus_curious wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote in message
>>> news:ilp2ng$mb2$4@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>>> In message <4d6d9465$0$23954$ec3e2dad@unlimited.usenetmonster.com>,
>>>> amicus_curious wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote in
>>>>> message
>>>>> news:ikidjt$acn$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>>>>
>> [deletia]
>>>>> People want to see improvements to Windows and they will wait for those
>>>>> improvements and when they occur, they will eagerly install or purchase
>>>>> the updates.
>>>>
>>>> Have you noticed that practically nobody has purchased Windows upgrades
>>>> in
>>>> the last 10 years? Essentially all of Microsoft’s Windows sales have
>>>> come
>>>> from preinstallations with new machines.
>>>>
>>>> I guess that shows how much people really care about Windows.
>>>
>>> You could take it that way, but you would be wrong. Certainly Microsoft
>>> does get a few billion in sales of a new release as part of the hubbub
>>> they
>>
>> These are not really "new" sales though.
>>
>> They're just milking the same old cash cow that they have been milking
>> since the days of MS-DOS. For all practical purposes, Windows 7 is just
>> the
>> latest version of MS-DOS.
>>
> Well, sure it is, Jedidiah! That's my whole point!
>
> There is certainly some technical quibble about the practical purpose of
> Windows 7 vs MS-DOS, but the essence of it all is that the latest Microsoft
> OS, today Win7, is what just about everyone expects to be provided with
> their new computers.
Most people have no expectations at all.
Infact, the younger people don't even percieve differences in operating
systems at all. They are not brand fixated like some old codger and they
aren't stymied by being presented with a different brand of the same type
of app. They barely notice.
[deletia]
Very few people care about new versions of monopolyware. They certainly
aren't going to be clamouring for it. If anything, they will be trying to
figure out how they can avoid it or barring that cleaning up after it.
Vista and Ribbon are both great examples of this.
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