Re: One year CodeGear

"Roger Lascelles" wrote:
"Loren Pechtel" wrote:

The problem is Microsoft shooting itself in the foot with Vista.
That's going to cause more and more people to head to Linux.

How much market share will these more and more people have?

Vista gets bad publicity, but I don't understand. I have 2 Vista PCs here and it has been the best Windows ever. Stable, secure. I have heard zero complaints from users I know. I'd be interested to hear what are the specific problems.

There is some backlash against the over hyped bad publicity.
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/defending_windows_vista.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535

Microsoft is showing a new side of it's Vista marketing campaign. ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=WindowsVistaAndLive

Their Income Statement don't show that they have shot themselves in the foot.
http://finance.google.com/finance?fstype=bi&q=MSFT

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