Is Vista More Popular than Windows 98? NO!

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And? There are millions more playstation 2's than playstation 3's but
people are buying the PS3 hand over fist.
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There is a possibility that PS3 sales will slow soon.

It all depends on what Sony decides to do...as what I could assume is ONLY
a cost-cutting measure, they have decided with the PAL (which doesn't com
eout until the end of this month) version to stop using a chip inside that
provided hardware backwards compatibility for PS2 titles. The backward
compatibility WITH the chip wasn't 100%, and now they have switched to s/w
compatibility mode, which is expected to provide much LESS compatibility
with PS2 titles.

If this move is carried over to the NTSC version, many people would hold
off buying the PS3 if they have a lot of money invested in PS2 software.

Gee....that sounds familiar.
 
Statistics an be interpreted in many ways. As the article doesn't give us
the complete information but only the conclusions they have made from the
statistics it's hard to know what to make of their conclusions. After
reading many such articles and looking at what statistics I could find I
have some similar but slightly different conclusions.

Here's the facts from the statistics. So far less people are upgrading to
Vista than upgraded to XP when XP first came out. Most people that are
buying new systems are buying them with Vista installed. Enough new systems
with Vista are being sold and older systems being upgraded to Vista that the
total number of installed Vista systems has or will soon surpass that of the
total number of systems running Windows 98, Linux, OS X, or Windows 2000.
The last statement depends on which set of statistics you are using but they
all point to that conclusion. The actual ranking of the various OS' varies a
bit depending on how and from where the statistics were generated.

Anything beyond these conclusions is conjecture given the statistics that I
have seen. I haven't seen any valid surveys to explain the statistics. My
personal conclusions from the statistics are: Most people using XP are happy
with it or at least happy enough that they don't want to upgrade. There are
still a surprising number of people running Windows 98. Many people were
unhappy with Windows 98 or 2000 when XP came out and were looking for
something better.
 
Here's the facts from the statistics. So far less people are upgrading to
Vista than upgraded to XP when XP first came out.
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That's because XP was a massive improvement over Win9x.
 
Conor said:
That's because XP was a massive improvement over Win9x.
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I didn't get it until 03. I reinstalled it in 04 and it's been running
great ever since even though I've changed a lot of hardware and even the
motherboard. With the new motherboard, a reinstall wasn't even necessary
nor was it necessary to activate. It just booted right on up. XP rocks.

Alias
 
Conor said:
And? There are millions more playstation 2's than playstation 3's but
people are buying the PS3 hand over fist.
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If people are buying them hand over fist, why are they so easy to get at
just about any retail electronic center? The PS3 is selling as fast as iced
maple syrup.
A stupid argument from a stupid Loonix Zealot.
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Wow, an eloquent and concise rebuttal, I can see why you had trouble
understanding Alias - it's more complex than simply "Windows Vista is buggy"
, than for you to understand what he is saying. Really though, instead of
denouncing his points of view with diatribes and ad hominems, make yourself
look at least somewhat intelligent and read what he is actually saying.
 
Conor said:
That's because XP was a massive improvement over Win9x.
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That's an opinion drawn from some statistics. I happen to agree with you on
this opinion. I was pointing out that the article referenced in the OP is an
opinion piece not a factual piece. We all have opinions drawn from
statistics, empirical evidence, and personal observations but we shouldn't
confuse these opinions with facts. Other people may draw completely
different conclusions from the same set of statistics, etc.. One of the
conundrums of statistics is that differing conclusions may be valid
conclusions and they all may be proven wrong by a different set of
statistics. To find out what is really going on you need statistics from
many sources, combined with several surveys. Even then there is always a
margin of error. In the case of Vista it will take much more time before we
have valid statistics to make any realistic conclusions. We all certainly
have our opinions but currently there isn't enough information available to
say conclusively whose opinion is more likely to be right.
 
Alias said:
You wish. Compare Vista's release to Win95 when people camped out to be
the first to buy it. Note that Vista is not only less popular than
Win98, it's MUCH less popular than W2K or XP.

That said, Vista IS more popular than Win Me.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Vista: the Win Me of NT. Wait for Vienna, when the promised Vista may
actually appear.

Alias
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OMG, are you obsessed with Vista or what?
Get a freakin life FGS!
Frank
 
Alias said:
No idea. Unlike you, I am waiting for Vista to reach prime time, if,
indeed, it ever does.

Alias
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Then you've just identified yourself a TROLL!
Get lost TROLL!
Frank
 
Frank said:
Then you've just identified yourself a TROLL!
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False. You just identified yourself as another MS fanboy who cannot
respond to content with anything but an insult.
Get lost TROLL!
Frank
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NO! How does it feel to want and not get?

Alias
 
Frank said:
OMG, are you obsessed with Vista or what?
Get a freakin life FGS!
Frank
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Please respond to content and dispense with the insults. Can you do that?

Alias, not holding his breath.
 
Alias said:
False. You just identified yourself as another MS fanboy who cannot
respond to content with anything but an insult.



NO! How does it feel to want and not get?

Alias
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Bullshit! I don't see you making any contributions other than your
constant slamming of MS, Vista and MVP's.
You're obsessed and out of control and that makes you a freaking TROLL!
Spin on it pal.
Frank
 
Alias said:
Please respond to content and dispense with the insults. Can you do that?

Alias, not holding his breath.
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I'm responding to your constant bleating about Vista. Your obsession
with it. It controls your every post.
Get over it ok!
Frank
 
Alias said:
I didn't get it until 03. I reinstalled it in 04 and it's been running
great ever since even though I've changed a lot of hardware and even the
motherboard. With the new motherboard, a reinstall wasn't even necessary
nor was it necessary to activate. It just booted right on up. XP rocks.

Alias
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Then why did you post that you just had a friend of yours send a copy
from the U.S.?
 
You wish. Compare Vista's release to Win95 when people camped out to be
the first to buy it. Note that Vista is not only less popular than
Win98, it's MUCH less popular than W2K or XP.
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That's because Win98 had compelling reasons to upgrqade over Win95. There
are no compelling reasons to get Vista over XP though as XP is already a
pretty good OS. It's too soon to say just how popular Vista will be though.
 
Frank said:
Bullshit! I don't see you making any contributions other than your
constant slamming of MS, Vista and MVP's.
You're obsessed and out of control and that makes you a freaking TROLL!
Spin on it pal.
Frank
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I help out as much as I can on other MS groups. My only advice on Vista
is that unless you're a repair tech, don't get it until it has matured.

Alias, who is not Frank's pal.
 
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