Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Feb 4, 2008 1:05 PM, Bob Axtell wrote: > >>> On the other hand, the company is updating all the software for Vista >>> since there are customers who needs Vista. >>> >>> >> Would you tell us who they are? Why would anybody NEED vista? >> > > It is not you need Vista or not. But when the customers start > to deploy Vista, the company has to provide Vista support. > Otherwise you lose the market share. > Hmm. I simply can't understand this kind of circular thinking. Everybody I know who bought a Vista to try it will NOT buy another one. And they will have their IT staff install a new XP installation as soon as it is possible to do so. I believe that Microsoft has ripped their pants on this one. --Bob A > I can understand that many people got upset with Vista because > it breaks quite some traditional usages to get better security or > better stability. However, like it or not, Vista will be the dominate > OS soon. > > Microchip is slow in Vista support but they now support Vista > 32bit for most of the software/hardware. Microchip USB stack > V1.3 even supports Windows Vista 64 bit. But it will be quite > difficult to go to Vista 64 as for now. > > If you do not like Vista, you can stay with Windows XP. Or > you can switch to Mac OS X and Linux. You have the choice > if you really want to. The major problem with them is third-party > software support. And third party support of Vista is getting > better and better now. Take note initial acceptance of XP is > also low. > > If we trust the followed Neowin market share data, we can clearly > see that XP to Vista transition is on the way. Maybe it is not > up to the expectation of Microsoft but it is certainly the case. > And I believe that Mac OS X's share rise simply because now Macs > can run Windows. For those who still like Windows 2k and Win98, > the market share of both are certainly dying. And Linux still has > a long way to go to beat your perceived "nobody-will-need" Vista. > > >From Neowin. > http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/01/09/market-share-2007-mac-os-gains-315-vista-grabs-1048 > Windows XP - 76.91% > Windows Vista - 10.48% > Mac OS - 7.30% > Windows 2000 - 2.66% > Windows 98 - 0.70% > Linux - 0.63% > > > Xiaofan > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist