From: "Geo" 

"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.

Geo.

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