XP and Vista question

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

When one produces a product as good as the Mac, what with the  
dramatic improvements in speed and capacity, it is actually a service  
to the customers that they be hurled toward buying something better.  
I still have three, but could be 5 or 6 if I hadn't given the others  
away, quite serviceable Macs; and would probably have kept using  
them, to my own detriment, were it not for the OS changes. Each time  
I have, somewhat reluctantly, "upgraded", the cost of the new system  
has usually been less than what I paid for the slower, lower capacity  
previous setup; and I usually recouped the new expense within the  
year by way of improved productivity. Based on what I have seen in  
the Window's world, such is much less dramatically observable. So, GO  
Apple!

Joe Wilkins

On Mar 4, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:

>> Am I off-base in my thinking, and should just not worry about
>> XP disappearing in the next couple years?
>
> I don't see XP disappearing for quite some time. MS cannot afford  
> to walk
> away from yesterday's operating system (or even the day before  
> yesterday) -
> they are in a totally different boat from Apple. Apple doesn't have  
> the
> incentive (they are incentivized in the opposite direction!) to keep
> supporting older operating systems - their business model seems  
> totally
> built around constantly moving their user base forward, making it  
> much more
> attractive to simply keep buying new hardware from...Apple.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lynn Fredricks
> Worldwide Business Operations
> Runtime Revolution Ltd
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>
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