I doubt that these sorts have thought so far as to consider the economy. Just their own bottom lines.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm surprised that they didn't mention Sp3 at all in the article. Is it > because there are still a lot of people that didn't upgrade to sp3? > > I can understand M$'s point of view on this but I still think that their > actions are a bad choice. You cannot force people to upgrade if they are > happy with what they have. (even if it isn't the best) Upgrading for > upgrading's sake is not the plan. M$ has already mentioned that Windows 8 is > coming out in another year or two so why bother? > > I think that they are pushing the upgrade in hopes to not only pull in > another billion but to force the people that may have a hacked copy to > possibly pay this time. Yea...Right. > > Another thing is that in these tough economic times there just aren't a lot > of people that can justify upgrading their OS just to make M$ happy. Like > Keith mentioned it will require ram and hard drive upgrades. Possibly video > card upgrades too. Great for the tech resellers but this will not jumpstart > the economy. > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Martin Baxter > <martinbaxt...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> >> Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing success of >> Windows XP, which has more than twice the installed base of Windows Vista >> and 7 put together. So it's trying its hardest to kill the operating system >> that won't die, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, >> putting many XP users at risk. Is that the right way to get people to >> upgrade? >> >> More at: >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/202612/microsofts_notsosecret_plan_to_cripple_windows_xp.html?tk=nl_wbx_h_crawl1 >> >> -- >> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell >> wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
