Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 27th Apr 2007 07:14 UTC
"Microsoft Corp. posted a 65 percent rise in quarterly profit Thursday, topping Wall Street estimates thanks to better than expected demand for its new Windows Vista operating system." More here.
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RE: who cares about Vista
by PlatformAgnostic on Fri 27th Apr 2007 17:58
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I can see Adobe being important...and there are always little spats between Adobe and their Platform Vendors (it's not all roses with Apple).
What do IBM and Symantec produce for Windows?? As far as I can see, IBM produces management infrastructure (i.e. Tivoli) and some collaboration and office software that most of the world doesn't care about. Symantec provides tools to manipulate hardware and correct deficiences in Windows and Windows Users.
I can honestly say that I think the world would be better off if no Symantec product was ever necessary. With increased security (and, frankly, nannying) from Vista, hopefully no one will care if Symantec products fail to run on Vista. Except Symantec, who will sic the EU on Microsoft.
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2006-01-06
I don't care about Vista, what I do care about is the Win32 API. Now, I know from a developer standpoint it's a piece of convoluted trash, but it's the API that runs all the applications I need. That's what sells Windows, the ISVs apps, not the OS. But MS is pissing off their largest ISVs, IBM, Symantec, and Adobe, so I think a mass defection might be in the works.
All this money and their OS's feature set has parity with freeware (Linux). Wow, that company is efficient! >_<