[BadVista Advocate] When will you start using Windows Vista?

[d_n@Loryx.com]

On 30 Apr 2007 at 0:01, news at adolflam.com wrote:

> Currently in this campaign, we used many superficial lacks of
> Windows
> Vista to demote it. Bashing and flaming without any proper goal
> would only
> make us seems like fools. Although it is true like many vista
> users
> complained, this campaign should focus on the ethics and ideal of
> free
> software instead. The technical flaws of Windows Vista currently may
> not
> be permanent, so it may become a turn-point of this 'war'. So when
> people
> start using Vista when it is 'stabilised', we lost.

Even more so, it's going to be tough to overcome the inertia of M$ bundling 
Vista on new PC's -- yet this could work in our favor. Most people don't 
know that they can save hundreds of $'s by refusing the default Vista 
installation, and going GNU/Linux instead. Perhaps this is another strong, 
positive tack?

See this article, to realize the economic effect of this.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/story?id=3091665&page=1

A Cloudy Vista Clears
Microsoft's Bright Quarterly Earnings Show Consumers Want New 
Operating System

SYNOPSIS: Early doubts about the sales of Microsoft's Vista operating 
system have been scattered by a better-than-expected Q1 2007 earnings 
report. The software monolith says revenues in its OS division were up 67 
percent, much better than expected, thanks to strong sales of Vista.