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Even complete lock-in might not work for them forever. The entire US financial industry uses Windows desktops and will for the foreseeable future, but adoption

by simon_ 17y ago

Even complete lock-in might not work for them forever. The entire US financial industry uses Windows desktops and will for the foreseeable future, but adoption of Vista, Windows 7, and Office 2007 has been (anecdotally) pretty negligible. I imagine that their future profits are in trouble if they can't innovate enough for users to even upgrade their products.

bad_user 17y ago
> adoption of Vista, Windows 7, and Office 2007 has been (anecdotally) pretty negligible. That's because Win XP and Office 2003 are good enough. That also spells trouble for their would-be competitors. If someone doesn't upgrade his XP box to Windows 7, do you think it's more likely he'll buy a Mac instead? I don't think so. And while web-apps are all the rage these days ... it sounds to me a lot like Sun's marketing campaign for Java or for the NC. I don't see a web-app replacing Office, even if it's powered by Google. Funny thing happened yesterday ... went to my local library to get some books, and the bookkeeper couldn't give me those books to me because their Internet connection went down, and their accounting was done with a web-app ... cursing and screaming in the process.
- eagleal 17y ago
  ... it's more likely he'll buy a Mac instead? Well, it's not quite right. Think it this way: Compatibility broken from XP to 7, not enough features to change (so I agree with you here), ... But, a I've been told that Mac ... A friend who works at a financial institution, and they switched from earlier (2003 server, XP) versions of Windows, to Mac.
  - bad_user 17y ago
    Compatibility isn't broken between XP to 7 ... only certain apps that used unofficial APIs. And for those you can use its "XP mode" (built on top of Virtual PC). Personally I've had few problems with Win 7, granted I only use it on my home computer. Apple breaks compatibility a lot more often, like every two years.

by simon_ 17y ago

bad_user 17y ago

> adoption of Vista, Windows 7, and Office 2007 has been (anecdotally) pretty negligible. That's because Win XP and Office 2003 are good enough. That also spells trouble for their would-be competitors. If someone doesn't upgrade his XP box to Windows 7, do you think it's more likely he'll buy a Mac instead? I don't think so. And while web-apps are all the rage these days ... it sounds to me a lot like Sun's marketing campaign for Java or for the NC. I don't see a web-app replacing Office, even if it's powered by Google. Funny thing happened yesterday ... went to my local library to get some books, and the bookkeeper couldn't give me those books to me because their Internet connection went down, and their accounting was done with a web-app ... cursing and screaming in the process.

eagleal 17y ago
... it's more likely he'll buy a Mac instead? Well, it's not quite right. Think it this way: Compatibility broken from XP to 7, not enough features to change (so I agree with you here), ... But, a I've been told that Mac ... A friend who works at a financial institution, and they switched from earlier (2003 server, XP) versions of Windows, to Mac.
- bad_user 17y ago
  Compatibility isn't broken between XP to 7 ... only certain apps that used unofficial APIs. And for those you can use its "XP mode" (built on top of Virtual PC). Personally I've had few problems with Win 7, granted I only use it on my home computer. Apple breaks compatibility a lot more often, like every two years.