(Ho provato a fare un titolo alla Mante, ci sono riuscito ?)
Link: Microsofts Vista Problem - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog.
Revenue from the company’s so-called client division — PC operating systems mainly — came in at bit under $4.03 billion. That was about $300 million less than most analysts had expected.
An IDC survey of 300 chief information officers, published earlier this year, found personal computers at the top of the list of hardware spending that companies would cut back on in an economic slowdown. In software, spending on operating systems — such as Vista — and Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity programs would be the first to be put off, they said.
Vista, given the more powerful processing power it requires, represents both a hardware and a software upgrade.
No surprise, then, that there has been a rising chorus among corporate technology customers who want Microsoft to keep licensing Windows XP, with its less-demanding hardware requirements, beyond the phase-out date for most new licenses on June 30....
While touring Europe this week, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, left the door open to extending the life of XP.
Fa il paio con cio' che avevo scritto a gennaio. Vendite sotto le aspettative, migrazioni a Vista rallentate e Ballmer che dice che forse prolungano la vita di XP.
Gira voce che Dell "sfiderà" MS vendendo macchine con preinstallato XP anche oltre la data di eliminazione ufficiale di MS.
