[Info-vax] Some good news !

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In article <L%sIl.25382$Ws1.8368 at nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Michael Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
>JF Mezei wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>>> Most likely not the end. They have little debt and are still
>>> making a profit. Not exactly bankruptcy material.
>> 
>> I think Microsoft's biggest challenge is adapting to a slower
>> replacement cycle for PCs and a population that is no longer eager to
>> line up a full day to be the first to get their hands on an upgrade.
>> 
>> I think that corporations hanging on to XP is a big sign of that.
>> 
>
>MS is trying to fix that... I was loafing around at <bigboxstore> last 
>evening and in a conversation with one of the PC sales folks, they said 
>a month or so ago, MS came in and basically grabbed all of their XP 
>stock and replaced it with Vista.  I suppose they got tired of everyone 
>"hanging on" to XP.

So M$ is forcing people to downgrade.

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