Comments on: Shipping Seven: hope Sinofsky doesn’t read

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:32:37 +0000

Anyway, I’m off for tonight…

By: Matt S.

Matt S. — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:31:23 +0000

I get emailed when theres a new message. So its not a big deal to me..

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:31:02 +0000

No, I haven’t forgotten. Before XP, there was NT4->NT5 (2000) and for consumers there was 95->98/98SE->ME (though that didn’t really gain a lot of users) + there were nowhere near the number of users that they are today. This is the first time where they’ll have 2 different large sets of user bases (XP and Vista) + 1 new one and all those systems cater to both, that being the key, both businesses and consumers whereas in the 9x/NT era, they had a split product/user base and could support the two user bases separately from each other.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:30:30 +0000

I don’t mind, but isn’t it hard to have a conversation here? You have to refresh this massive page, then refresh it to check often.

By: Matt S.

Matt S. — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:29:25 +0000

Did we over stay our welcome? lol

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:27:25 +0000

You guys should share email/instant messenger addresses.

By: Matt S.

Matt S. — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:26:16 +0000

You seem to forget how it was before XP. There was always another OS come out every 2-3 years. So Im sure they will just have to get back into the swing of things having more than 2 OS’s in the mainstream at the same time..

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:24:35 +0000

By 3 different user bases, I mean that there will be 2 user bases that have a considerable amount of users already on them by 2009 and then a 3rd that will only grow leaving MS with quite a job to do.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:22:49 +0000

Obviously Matt, I have said that Vista’s market share will continue to grow, that’s inevitable, the problem is how much? Even if Vista were to take half the Windows market share by 2009, then what? You’ll have half of em on XP, half on Vista, and then if MS were to introduce a new OS in 09, there’ll be a nice mess there with 3 different user bases for MS to support.

By: Johnathan

Johnathan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:20:37 +0000

I’m personally predicting the move from Vista->7 to be closer to a 2000->XP move so by the time 7 is out, everyone will probably have had a chance to evaluate and fix their stuff for Vista and could relatively easily move to 7.