Re: Vista

On Jan 1, 2:25 am, "HeyBub" <hey...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Richard wrote:

Microsoft's customers are Dell, Gateway, HP, etc and _not_ the end
user. Slowing down XP would result in many end-users buying more
powerful replacement machines from Microsoft's customers, and these
will have Vista installed so MS collects revenue. They will also get
extra revenue when the user buys a retail XP to install over Vista.

Most hardware suppliers (Dell, et al) will replace Vista with XP. Some new

That is correct for Dell and a few others, but generally not for
retail shops where they are all Vista.

Some also offer other alternatives. The point being that MS tried to
control what OEM could offer and only allowed (!) XP for 3 months
after Vista was released, but had to rescind this because many simply
wouldn't buy Vista.

hardware, especially laptops, can't run XP because the drivers for their
unique hardware are Vista-specific.

And much hardware can't work with Vista because the drivers aren't
available. In some cases some hardware (video cards) sold as 'Ready
for Vista' won't support Aero. The rationale for this is that MS gave
out certification if the _any_ version of Vista worked and 'Home
Basic' doesn't have Aero.

Compiz on Ubuntu outdoes Aero and will run on almost any integrated
video, such as my 4 year old laptop.


MS needs to keep their customer's happy and selling lots of Windows
boxes, otherwise they may start selling cheaper machines with Linux.
If people are actually happy with existing XP machines then the price
gap to new Vista and beyond will become too great.

Linux accounts for less than 1% of the desktop market (0.86% was the last
number I saw). This is roughly equivalent to OS2.

It is 1% of the retail market because of contractual tie ins with MS.
To get a Linux box one has to buy a Windows box and reformat or dual
boot, or use uncounted white-box or build your own. I have several
Linux boxes here and in client sites and _none_ were counted.

Also many Linux machines are recycled older machines that ran Win98,
ME or 2000 and would otherwise be dumped, yet will run perfectly fine
for most home users, or even for businesses. They don't get counted
either.

This is changing, mainly because Vista requirements are so large that
system price is high. With ASUS EEE, XO, Nokia 810, and several other
there is a new category of machines.

The main competitor to Windows and Office is older versions of those.
As well as eliminating other competitors MS must also ensure that
older versions of their software stop working. They do this with
Office by introducing new incompatible formats that older versions
can't read, and making these the default for emailing.

Docx was not created to obsolete prior versions; Docx was created to use XML
architecture,

Well actually is uses a MS specific non-standard form of XML and then
obscures it by failing to use meaningful tags.

making Word more open than its .doc predecessor.

There is no attempt to make it 'open'. Certainly it is no longer just
a dump or the internals of MSWord, but is an XMLified dump of thoise
internals.

There are
already scads of docx-to-doc converters,

Partial converters.

but you can do it by hand. Take a
.docx document, add ".zip" to the end, click on the file. Inside of the
archive is a file named "document.xml" and clicking on that should open the
original file in a browser window (or maybe not...).

The point of doing that is what ? You won't see the actual document as
it would be redered by MSWord.

Perhaps you are confusing this with the 'online converters' where you
upload the .docx to a site and they convert (mostly) to html, add some
advertising, and display the result.


With OSes they try to ensure that new games, eg, will only run on new
OS. There is no technical reason why DirctX10 cannot run on XP, if
fact it can be hacked to do so.

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