From: mike 


circa 1995:

'I am more productive by an order of magnitude with Windows 95 than with
Windows 3.11,' said Rob Enderle, industry analyst at Dataquest...









On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:26:07 +0000, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>Good Lord the shock...
>
>http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3662806
>
>"For some time Microsoft has been showing signs that things aren’t going
>well. Vista was late, and they had to delay it even more to ensure that
>Dell was not unfairly advantaged. From Dell’s perspective, Dell was
>penalized because they had a model that was more efficient than its
>competitors and they believe that Microsoft contributed, with intent, to
>them missing their quarter and having to both fire their CEO and bring
>the founder back from retirement.
>
>To suggest that Michael Dell is upset with Microsoft would be to vastly
>understate the situation. Livid would probably be more accurate. And as
>we rolled to the launch, Dell in particular was becoming more and more
>upset that Microsoft was not listening to them and certainly not being
>responsive to their needs.
>
>When Vista arrived it was incomplete. Key parts remain missing, the
>promised marketing plan doesn’t appear to be effective, and sales are
>not meeting the requirements of the OEMs who were depending on it to
>significantly drive up hardware sales. Microsoft lengthened the period
>of time that Windows XP would be supported, against the OEMs’ wishes. "
>
>"As a result, Dell, and other OEMs, now view Microsoft as a problem, and
>increasingly a competitor they have to deal with, and each is trying to
>come up with a way to do that individually. At some point I do expect
>them to organize and address this issue in some kind group fashion.
>Until then they appear to be trying to help create a competitor to
>Windows, and since Apple won’t license, Linux, ready or not, is the next
>in line."
>
>As usual though he can't help with the FUD:
>
>
>"Linux isn’t really ready for the desktop. It isn’t better than Windows
>it is simply different, and seems to morph between limited easy-to-use
>client and non-compatible headache in large numbers. While it is
>improving it doesn’t yet interoperate as well as the MacOS does in
>Windows desktop environments."
>
>
>Interesting semi-admission though...."It isn’t better than Windows it is
>simply different".....it used to be "Windows all the way Linux hasn't a
>hope etc.etc."
>
>Adam

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