From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:44c8033b{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Vista will sell like crazy, and the only thing it needs to really
>> have ready and working is all the visual gimmicks. All the
>> rest, MS has years to stitch that together.
>
> I think vista is actually going to hurt hardware sales because people
> won't buy a new machine because they don't want to move to vista.

Well I disagree with that, I think it'll drive HW sales because people love
to get anything that's flashy and pointless, at any cost. Think Mac...


> I think the DRM and copy protection are going to be the main
> reason

For knowledgeable people, sure, but Joe Average and his Aunt May won't know
what it is anyway.


> as most people don't know the difference between dos and
> unix let alone how windows works.

Well Linux for sure won't be a factor unless Vista delays another 5 years
(not too unlikely it seems ). Just look at the posts in
.linuxhelp: almost without exception, for each and every question the
answer contains command line and/or config files. That just doesn't fly.
What flies is anything preinstalled in the most standard computers
available from your local store, and I think MS is pretty strong there.

And it sucks. I wish people like whoever it was that came up with that
idiotic shaking and wobbling windows in Linux thing, that we just saw the
video of, would dig into the important stuff - how to make wifi just plain
work, and how to make file & printer sharing just plain work, basic
things like that. Then we'd have a game. But, still, after all the years of
"Linux is finally ready for desktop", the clue is still somewhat
missing and we're still fiddling with bash and etc and all that crap, and
MS knows it damn well and is laughing as they go by.


Antti Kurenniemi

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