Check out the Poll on http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm?dynamic_vote=ON#vote_vista_vote Seems 78.38% of us are not intending to update to Vista. Probably not an acturate Poll as I voted 'no' three times. Must be all those Linux fans boys out there click 'no' all day. :-)
Colin On 1/30/07, John McCourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No offense, but Linux is not gonna have any chance at > competing with the marketing drive of Microsoft over > the next few months. Vista is the BIG thing in the IT > world at the moment getting all the attention and > until the novelty wears off and that blows over it > will stay the big thing. The press simply wont be > interested in little Linux when the big guns are > making a new release. The Mac advertising campaign has > got very agressive in recent days too.... linux > doesn't really have much of an advertising campaign > and isn't visible on too many popular sites in the > form of banners or mentions and because of this Linux > is largely going unheard, unseen and unnoticed on most > major sites and tv stations. Vista and Mac are both > being advertised regularly on the most popular sites > on the world. > > > --- Benjamin Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was having a look at how the BBC was covering the > > launch of Vista and > > found this. > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6310599.stm > > > > I was reasured that it did mention Linux, albeit > > only briefly and has a > > quote from a satisfied Linux user. Is that anyone > > here btw? > > > > --Ben Webb > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from > your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
