A Year After Release Vista 11 Hasn't Even Been Adopted (Nowhere Near Vista 10 Yet) and Microsoft Already Drops Vista 12 'Vapourware'
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2022-09-19 05:02:52 UTC
Modified: 2022-09-19 05:12:12 UTC
Summary: It's rather revealing that Vista 11 is another Vista 8.x or Windows ME; almost nobody adopts it (not many people buy a new PC in an economic downturn amid rise of mobile devices) but Microsoft already rushes to promise some future version
"Stewart Alsop, industry gadfly, presented Gates with the "Golden Vaporware" award" ~Barbarians Led by Bill Gates (book)
"The purpose of announcing early like this is to freeze the market at the OEM and ISV level. In this respect it is JUST like the original Windows announcement...
"One might worry that this will help Sun because we will just have vaporware, that people will stop buying 486 machines, that we will have endorsed RISC but not delivered... So, Scott, do you really think you can fight that avalanche?"
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
This is a real problem and most certainly a big problem because when people try to find real information about security and GNU/Linux they instead read "word salads" made by bots
