“Technology pundit Rob Enderle writes of the yawns being induced from IT types over Microsoft’s Windows Vista (née Longhorn) – probably partly because they were up every night last week applying patches to fix patches and cleaning spyware, adware, and assorted malware because, way back when, their companies were too cheap to buy real Macs, so they settled for poor imitations,” SteveJack writes over on our “Opinion” pages.
“Enderle looks at two scenerios: if Windows Vista is a ‘dud’ or a ‘killer’ product. If it’s a dud, Enderle writes, ‘I honestly don’t see… Apple benefiting much from this failure unless they change dramatically… into a company that will listen and respond to business needs.’ Enderle think that seems that’s “too unlikely to speculate on at this point” even though his statement just sits there like a lump of —- and isn’t explained a whit. The requirement to be a technology pundit these days are remarkably low, it would seem. Enderle does get one thing right when he pens, ‘One of the foundations for Windows’ success in the past has been a closely coupled Office product. But these days Office for the Mac is better coupled to Apple than Office is to Windows, so there is little help expected from that quarter.’ Bravo, Rob,” SteveJack writes.
“Within Enderle’s even more vapid and incomprehensible ‘If Windows Vista is Killer Product’ section (I defy anyone to tell me what the heck he’s trying to say in that section), he scribbles two sentences, ‘As demand for a new product goes up, demand for existing products goes down, which is part of the risk Apple took when pre-announcing the move to x86. Recent surveys indicate demand for Apple’s existing products is dropping like a rock as a result.’ That’s it. He just drops it there and moves on. No supporting evidence, no sources, nothing – just like the contents of his earthquake-fearing gourd, I strongly suspect. Because Enderle offers no evidence of his ‘recent surveys,’ I’m forced to hunt for my own and this is what I found,” SteveJack writes.
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