Death of Windows will push PC sales

[bonkers325]

THE DECISION BY Microsoft to phase out support for Windows 9X operating systems will mean big businesses will have to upgrade to better hardware, a market research analyst claimed today. According to senior analyst Matthew Wilkins at iSuppli, many big businesses have stuck with Windows 9X systems and are still hanging fire on upgrading to W2K or to Windows XP.

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But when Microsoft drops support for Windows 9X operating systems soon, that will mean that companies will have to upgrade the hardware, because CPUs and OSes from Intel and Microsoft appear to go together like marriage and divorce.

Wilkins claims that will give a boost to PC sales during 2003 which could mean unit growth this year will rise by slightly over 10 per cent.

Desktops will do the worst at 8.6 per cent yet yield the highest revenues at 19.1 per cent, said iSuppli. Notebook sales, however, will grow by 16.6 per cent this year but revenues for the PC companies will only be 11 per cent because of price pressure on this sector.

If iSuppli figures are correct, PC vendors everywhere are likely to be breaking out bottles of bubbly and hoping the good times roll, yet again

 

[Yossarian]

probably true, but it's not like it takes a particularly expensive puter to run 2k or xp

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I'm sure there will be the required uproar from big buisnesses too, once they see that their budget just isn't big enough.

 

[Ausm]

Phasing out Win9X has been in the works for a loooongtime....


Ausm

 

[SnapIT]

Well, FreeBSD pwns you any day of the week anyway...

 

[aswedc]

Are businesses really going to care if Win9x is officially supported or not in non critical applications? I mean, its Win9x...they've never really been stable or secure anyway...

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: ausm
Phasing out Win9X has been in the works for a loooongtime....


Ausm

good riddance.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: PipBoy
probably true, but it's not like it takes a particularly expensive puter to run 2k or xp

no it doesent

we ran 2k Pro in a AMD K6-2 500 Laptop and it ran fine. better then 98 actually

 

[Zugzwang152]

i'm sure theres going to be bigger commotion in a few years when they phase out Windows 2000...

 

[nmcglennon]

Going form Win2000 to XP or whatever they have next wont be that hard... they are similar upgrades...

when everything moves to "longhorn" thats when commotion will start... you have to have a good gfx card to run that...

 

[Softballslug]

How many of these companies even really care??? After all, most have their own tech support. I can't imagine a company of any size waiting on hold for Microsoft Tech support!!!!!
Some will even take the action of doing nothing. It works and runs today, it will work and run tomorrow.

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: Softballslug
How many of these companies even really care??? After all, most have their own tech support. I can't imagine a company of any size waiting on hold for Microsoft Tech support!!!!!
Some will even take the action of doing nothing. It works and runs today, it will work and run tomorrow.

Exactly my thinking.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Softballslug
How many of these companies even really care??? After all, most have their own tech support. I can't imagine a company of any size waiting on hold for Microsoft Tech support!!!!!
Some will even take the action of doing nothing. It works and runs today, it will work and run tomorrow.

The retail industry sure cares. Half of the software/hardware providers we work with haven't even begun testing their products on XP. There is limited support for Win2k. There is actually a very large market of software and hardware providers that have yet to provide development on the new OS's. And it makes a bitch of a time for me to try and band-aid old equipment :|

 

[her209]

ME is a POS.

 

[Evadman]

I don't think it will matter. I know of a company that has over 13,000 computers all running NT 4.0. I am pretty sure support was dropped for NT quite a while ago

 

[wnied]

THE DECISION BY Microsoft to phase out support for Windows 9X operating systems will mean big businesses will have to upgrade to better hardware

Thats the same Crock of Sh!t they tried to say about Windows2000 Professional and Server. Claimed that once they said they werent going to support NT4, that "Businesses would HAVE to upgrade."
Truth is, 90% of my business clients I visit, all STILL use Windows NT4.
So its another flush from the Redmond PR Toilet again.


Don't Believe The Hype.
~wnied~

 

[Bleep]

I for one would like to see a law that when a software co. drops a program from support or distribution it goes to public domain. I just seen DOS 2 floppys in a computer store for $60.00.

think they will ever sell it?

Bleep

 

[bonkers325]

Originally posted by: Bleep
I for one would like to see a law that when a software co. drops a program from support or distribution it goes to public domain. I just seen DOS 2 floppys in a computer store for $60.00.

think they will ever sell it?

Bleep

:Q

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Bleep
I for one would like to see a law that when a software co. drops a program from support or distribution it goes to public domain. I just seen DOS 2 floppys in a computer store for $60.00.

think they will ever sell it?

Bleep

Do you wear a sideways baseball cap and have a gold chain around your neck?

 

[Mrburns2007]

Some will run NT 4 til 2010

 

[ElFenix]

woot! planned obsolesence!

 

[ROTC1983]

They will never win, Windows 98 all the way

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

So they presume that people who buy the latest computers are the same as the ones who use Windows 9x still?

Let me guess, it's an analyst of the kind 'I was too dumb for the McDonalds checkout, so I became an IT consultant'?

 

[AznMaverick]

Originally posted by: her209
ME is a POS.

i second that, it was a joke.

 

[AznMaverick]

Originally posted by: wnied
THE DECISION BY Microsoft to phase out support for Windows 9X operating systems will mean big businesses will have to upgrade to better hardware

Thats the same Crock of Sh!t they tried to say about Windows2000 Professional and Server. Claimed that once they said they werent going to support NT4, that "Businesses would HAVE to upgrade."
Truth is, 90% of my business clients I visit, all STILL use Windows NT4.
So its another flush from the Redmond PR Toilet again.


Don't Believe The Hype.
~wnied~

isn't NT4 also more secure? or am i wrong...