From: /m 

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 06:27:26 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in
>message news:44acacb7{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> However I think that point is approaching & it will be either Vista or
>> it's sucessor which is the tipping point.
>
>There is no "tipping point". It's more like a slow steady
migration away,
>almost unnoticeable if you are just looking at month to month numbers.
>
>For example, I run nthelp.com and I work for an NT based ISP. But what's
>happening is I now have 4 linux devices and one laptop running linux at home
>and I've got linux based spam filters at the ISP and have refused to go
>beyond W2K on any machines (although I did participate in the XP and Vista
>betas and have activated XP and Vista at least a couple dozen times for
>testing purposes).
>
>Does Microsoft notice this, no, they see the test activations and figure I'm
>a loyal customer. I communicate my feelings to a couple of MS types but do
>they pass that up the food chain (Rich?) well I kind of doubt that since MS
>is now so huge you have major isolation. Nobody from the windows team ever
>goes out beyond the MS news groups to ask for feedback anymore.
>
>I honestly think Microsoft is so isolated from customers they are blind to
>the situation.

along those lines...

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4871/106/


 /m

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