[ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

[Colin_The_Technician]

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 <steekyjim at yahoo.com> 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 <bjwebb67 at googlemail.com> 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
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> >
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