Just a lousy article.
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| Author | Content |
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| Bob_Robertson Dec 29, 2007 8:54 AM EDT |
Even ignoring how he ignores anything that contradicts his "Microsoft Is God" filter, it's just not a very good article. It's badly written, inconclusive, uninformative and rambling. One wonders how he makes any money at all. |
| Scott_Ruecker Dec 29, 2007 9:43 AM EDT |
The title of the article looks like he's trying to jam it full of keyword searches. |
| lcafiero Dec 29, 2007 9:47 AM EDT |
Scott is right -- It looks like this is a keyword bonanza. One thing is for sure: Rob Enderle puts the "anal" in analyst. Time to set up the Elmers for 2008, with Rob leading the pack. |
| pogson Dec 30, 2007 1:13 AM EDT |
Totally ignores the emergence of the low-cost PC as an M$ killer. The expansion of GNU/Linux in China, India, Brazil, Russia and the Third World will be on low-cost PCs. When the price is that low, throwing out M$ will be obviously the right design choice both because of bloat and because of price. The market for low-cost is many times larger than the annual production of the standard PC. For example, there are about 1000 million PCs in the world but there are many thousands of millions of people who do not yet have access. Lowering the price opens the door for them. We have no clear idea how many eee PCs ASUS could have sold if it had had bigger production facilities because they kept selling out. A lot of sales were in the developed economies but expect more in the rest of the world in 2008. GNU/Linux has no competition in that market and will expand rapidly. The OLPC and eee PC are just the beginning of the move to lower cost PCs. Wintel has been resisting this for a decade, seeing the M$ treadmill as a revenue generator. The capability of modern low-power chips, RAM, FLASH, LCDs and wireless make M$'s OS conspicuously expensive. The bloat of Vista make it difficult to squeeze in. Its MIPS-eating behaviour which is part of the Wintel treadmill is totally inappropriate. The market will decide much faster than the courts what is anti-competitive about M$ in 2008. |
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