R. McCarty said:
If that's true, then I guess I should stop work on a brand new system
a customer ordered this morning. Extra nice hardware and Vista and
Office 2007 as well.
I'm not talking about "a customer". I said specifically the corporate world,
which is where an o/s lives or dies.
The latest CDN issue (Jan 5, 2007) - a trade journal for the IT industry in
Canada had this to say ...
"Softchoice Corp., one of Microsoft's largest Canadian partners with a major
U.S. operation conducted a survey of more than 100,000 desktops in 472
North American companies to assess their readiness to install Windows
Vista. Roughly half of those users are unable to meet the basis system
requirements for the operating system, Softchoice said, while 94 percent
would be unable to meet the requirements for Vista's premium features."
more ...
"Vista's minimum CPU requirements have increased 243 percent from those of
Windows XP ... the speed of the average CPU has only increased 215 percent
over the same period."
Axios Systems with offices in Ottawa had this to say ...
"Based on its data, only 5 percent of IT directors and helpdesk managers
from 240 companies around the world said they were interested in deploying
Vista. Instead, 31 percent said they will be focusing on knowledge
management projects, 18 percent will be setting up VOIP infrastructures, 13
percent will be installing security software ... "
A recent Web poll on ITBusiness.ca also painted a dismal picture for Vista
deployments. Of 214 votes received at press time, 71 percent of readers
said they either had no plans or would never be upgrading to the new
version of Windows."
So there you go. Microsoft will have to count on pre-loads of Vista on NEW
computers sound to the general public from bigbox stores like FutureSlop.
IMHO, most will be purchasing the lo-end versions and won't be all that
happy with them. The corporate world, where computer direction actually
means something in the big picture, won't be going to Vista and certainly
aren't going to spend the hundreds of dollars per box in their enterprises
to be able to run a bloated p.o.s. like Vista.
On the other hand, I'm running Ubuntu with Beryl. I have all the eye-candy
and more than Vista provides running on hardware that is now almost 5 years
old.
Runs faster than Windoze, totally stable and secure and uses
hardly any resources compared to Vista's demands. Anyone with half a brain
can see that Vista is a dud and Microsoft better start getting VERY
worried.
Cheers.
