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Today’s Group: Muelle
Here are some of today’s headlines:
Cable Wants to Cut the Cord
Running Windows With No Services. . Zero
E-mail is for older people
On the Inside [5:19]
Band: Muelle
Genre: Funk
Thanks to William Kempthorne for his continued support of SDR.
My Opinion: Windows Vista
Earlier today. I had an email from Chris Pirillo of Gnomedex and Tech TV fame : He asked the question ” What’s your thoughts on Windows Vista ? with an invite to add to the soapbox on a mini-roundtable segment on The Chris Pirillo Show Web site and live stream.
Didn’t want to miss a chance to contribute my $0.02 — so here goes:
This is Andy McCaskey, from SlashdotReview podcast.:
I think that the near term impact of Windows Vista will not be as substantial as those of us who are close to or tracking technology would like to imagine.
A consumer mass market – - with an installed base in the hundreds of millions, has one thing going for it. Mass.
It has one thing going against it. Mass intertia.
If you look at the long tail of machines still on Win 98 or Win2000, hardware 3, 4 years old or more (that’s 28 in dog years, incidentally) – that’s entirely adequate for those users. They don’t think of their machines as being old. And compelling power hungry applications – since gaming’s the province of consoles – haven’t hit that mass market with the same forces that make SlashdotReview or CHris Pirillo show listeners crave the latest, in either performance or eye candy.
Users on that long tail – even if they have upgraded to XP — their “day in the life of a user is this:
They are bedeviled with spyware, afraid of the media hyped virus or “evil hacker”, mystified by the jargon and still forwarding jokes and “cookie recipe hoaxes.”
To have impact beyond the “next scheduled release” Vista is going to have to clearly and distinctly promise and deliver a step up solution to those problems. As clear as “that’s your old B&W TV, this is color. ”
I just doubt that’s going to happen.
Besides, as Doc Searls says: We all run Linux or BSD anyway. We just call it Google or eBay ..
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