[Info-vax] Some good news !

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In article <49f356b0$0$90264$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <L%sIl.25382$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.
>
>Mainstream support on Windows XP ended April 14th. The only
>updates that will still come for XP is security updates.
>
>Not that surprising that MS does not want to sell a product where
>they are stopping normal support.

So what you are saying is that M$ _is_ forcing people to downgrade.

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