[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00A8A9C9.A7971EF4 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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.

More senatics as is Oh so common here.  They are doing the same
thing that every other computer company has don.  Or, are you
saying I can still get upgrades to MicroVMS for my MicroVAX II? 
Damn those people for making me buy newer hardware and a newer
version of VMS.

bill
 

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