Comment Dell outsmarted MS *Big Time* ! (Score 0) 879
This is an easy one. MS's success relied on some two hard facts - the fact that their software was buggy and required upgrades, and the fact that no competition meant they could strongarm OEM's.
Well, well, here it is 2007, the market's way bigger and the universe of user applications is more established. Unless Vista is less buggy than XP by a magnitude (doubtful), or Vista enables a new-breed of must-have application (again doubtful), then WTF is it good for? Sure, it'll creep in through the OEM's, but the buckets of cash MS expected to make, let alone the buckets of cash MS spent building Vista, aren't going to recovered as soon as they like. Heh, nothing succeeds like success, eh?
Well, well, here it is 2007, the market's way bigger and the universe of user applications is more established. Unless Vista is less buggy than XP by a magnitude (doubtful), or Vista enables a new-breed of must-have application (again doubtful), then WTF is it good for? Sure, it'll creep in through the OEM's, but the buckets of cash MS expected to make, let alone the buckets of cash MS spent building Vista, aren't going to recovered as soon as they like. Heh, nothing succeeds like success, eh?
