britishbob

Sorry guys.  I sent twitter announcements all day long.  I'm going to try to do a blog post to announce schedule changes in the future.  I hope that will help.



I think it's only personal preference.  Those 3TB drives are better suited for use in RAID for me.

Dave,

We have noted in chat before that twitter is only good for the peeps who use it!

There is a whole forum here where those announcements are not made, which would have been extremely useful to those of us who ended up chatting amongst themselves tonight because we don't use twitter but spend most days on the forum. It seems the community is only the community if it uses something outside of the community!

What is the point of the forum if announcements are made outside of it?

I think today many people are reluctantly looking into alternatives like Amahi.

The fact that they are looking at all is a problem.

How long before MS looks at it's shrinking market and says it's not worth it.

Perhaps they already have and by pulling D.E. they provide their own excuse?

As I said in my first post here I have seen the premature demise of many computers (and some resurrections like Apple.) I have had in my hands some stillborn such as the Elan Enterprise. The only one I still regret to this day was the (like P.T.) Amiga.  There is only ever two factors in the demise of anything whether it be computers or cars or.....etc.

1/Is there a viable alternative?

2/ What is the public (or enthusiast) perception?

In the case of W.H.S. M.S. have handled this "train wreck" very poorly, undermining confidence in their own product.

They should have had a possible remedy when they made the announcement. Instead they said D.E. is dead........Crickets chirp!

Now the vacuum is filled by speculation which is getting louder (such as Windows Weekly) and forcing a change in perception of the product even to the casual, half attentive listener.

As a side effect people (even us) are looking at alternatives (such as Amahi or Drobo or Nas.) Old Chinese proverb....if you look hard enough for something....You will eventually find it!

And that's what I meant by achieving critical mass!