Ballmer says

[Ground Cover]

[Ballmer: No More Long Waits Between Windows Releases - Paul Thurrott at
Windowsitpo]

http://www.windowsitpro.com/windows...rticleID/71318/windowspaulthurrott_71318.html



Personally, I was all for the long delay. I was getting sick of new versions
and caught an awful case of "upgrade fatigue". Somebody tell Ballmer some of
us don't mind a good run for an OS. If it's worth developing and publishing
and if it's worth it for me to learn it, then it's worth a good solid run.

 

[Guest]

I kind of agree. Im not so sure I would want a whole new OS every 2 or 3
years. Especially as they are getting more sophisticated. In the early days
of Windows it wasnt so bad. The difference between 3.1 and 95 was really
cool. I wanted that kind of sunctionality as soon as they could release it.
But now it seems to be a little unnecessary to be too frequent.
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[Michael A. Covington]

Personally, I was all for the long delay. I was getting sick of new
versions
and caught an awful case of "upgrade fatigue". Somebody tell Ballmer some
of
us don't mind a good run for an OS. If it's worth developing and
publishing
and if it's worth it for me to learn it, then it's worth a good solid run.

Amen!!!

 

[Bernie]

Well personally I agree that I don't need a new OS every couple of years
but that doesn't for a moment mean that I don't think MS should release
one every six months if they could. None of us are forced to buy it and
if too few do then it wouldn't be viable for MS to produce them. What
I'd really like to see are really viable alternatives.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If it wasn't for the inherent security issues in the design of XP I wouldn't
mind sticking with it. But Vista does leverage a lot of new hardware
technology that XP struggles with and I'm ready for a new system. After
that, well I'm getting too old to care.

 

[Chris Game]

Well personally I agree that I don't need a new OS every couple of
years but that doesn't for a moment mean that I don't think MS
should release one every six months if they could. None of us are
forced to buy it and if too few do then it wouldn't be viable for
MS to produce them. What I'd really like to see are really viable
alternatives.

Apple/Mac seem to release new versions every year. No-one seems to
complain.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I know. I have Tiger now and am looking forward to Leopard. But keeping
OS/X up to date has cost me $600 now. In the same time XP Pro cost me $300
and the service packs have been free.

 

[Tom Lake]

Apple/Mac seem to release new versions every year. No-one seems to
complain.

Yeah but when Apple releases a new OS, I have to install it on four
machines.
When a new version of Windows comes out, I have to install it on six hundred
machines. Apple is a lot less trouble for me. 8^)

Tom Lake

 

[Bernie]

I understand that Tom but if MS didn't come up with new things a lot of
us would be out of jobs. Would that be a lot less trouble?

 

[Mario Rosario]

Apple/Mac seem to release new versions every year. No-one seems to
complain.

There aren't that many users to complain