VISTA IS Screwed

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I worked for IBM at the time..

Ha, no wonder!

I have no idea what the situation was with Dell. I worked for IBM at the
time..

 

[Charlie Tame]

"IT execs still close doors on Vista, despite update" "Vista adds a
lot of overhead and not much benefit. Honestly, we don't see the
value-add," said the CIO"

Right, it is the value add that is the problem I think. It's not so much
what Vista can and cannot do, it is more to do with what the users
"Need" to do, and there's almost nothing XP cannot do, so it was bound
to be an uphill struggle. Not only does this limit the value add but
there's also the extra costs for new hardware and possible software. My
own company is not big, couple of hundred PCs at most I think, but there
is nothing at all, not one single thing where Vista would be better than
XP. If MS actually make XP unusable then it won't be vista that's
adopted it will be something that will run on the existing hardware, and
most Linux will easily do it.

Microsoft are between a rock and a hard place somewhat, I truly would
not be able to judge their best course of action, but I fear that
annoying people with junk like WGA / WPA is exactly their worst course
of action. I "Feel" like I'm being pushed away, and nobody likes to feel
that way. Sure that is just me, but how many others?

As I posted someplace last night, if MS would rather casual theft does
not take place fine, but if we all install genuine Ubuntu instead of a
"Borrowed" XP that we were never going to buy anyhow where does this
improve MS's bottom line? Seems to me like some theft is payed for by
advertising, now there's no theft but more and more will see that Linux
is perfectly usable for a great many tasks. May as well put Apple's logo
on the Vista workbench. When you consider the numbers of machines out
there Microsoft could be advertising Ubuntu on more desktops than there
are Apples out there to advertise their own.

This doesn't sound like Bill Gates' decision to me, maybe it is but if
so I have to wonder about him I think it will become a deadly
barrier to Vista adoption and in the end lose money, not save any.

 

[Universe_JDJ]

Go back to XP then. What OS you use is a choice. I have been using Vista
since the first day it was released to the public got Home Premium Full
Version And upgraded to Ultimate. I really like Vista. I was dual booting
with XP and last week I took it off my other hard drive. Why waste the drive
when I do not use XP anymore.

Well said.

 

[Universe_JDJ]

Wrongo just a lame attempt at revising history.

XP percentage wise was installed at a much higher rate. PC vendors
did not back track and offer a prior version of Windows on new PCs.
That one fact is very telling.

XP did not have basic file mgmt issues at all and SP1 for XP was
huge.

Could you link us to your so-called source of information?

 

[Barb]

I agree. It is definitely time for something new. I'm just plain bored with
Windows and Leopard. Something new and totally different is needed.
Barb

 

[Alias]

Just because PC vendors are still supplying computers with XP doesn't
make Vista a bad OS. All the he hardware vendors are doing is getting
rid of all the old stock, like any good business would do.

Um, Microsoft extended purchases of NEW copies of XP until May of next
year. It is not old stock. Oops.

Snip fantasy scenario.

Alias

 

[ato_zee]

Let's face it the subject line is wrong, it's us that are being screwed.

 

[Alias]

Translation: alias can't understand what is being discussed so he
insults, blusters and lies...nothing new.
Frank

Typical Frank tactic: projection. Too bad everyone sees through this
amateur tactic except, of course, Frank himself. Frank thinks he's being
slick and cute.

Alias