Writer knows nothing about Tarot, just for starters. The trump "Death" is not a death card. Neither is the "Lightning-Struck Tower". You want a death card, the nine or ten of Swords will do the job.
The latter, btw, is not a card of violent death.
Posted on 10/19/2009 11:45:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
XP's long reign over the hearts and minds of corporates will end on October 22 when Windows 7 is launched, predicts analysts Forester.
Soothsayers in Forester's tarot reading division have pulled the Death card for Windows XP on the corporate desktop. Forrester’s Benjamin Gray said that businesses needed refresh aging IT infrastructure. There was also a predicted end to XP support and getting copies of the operating system was becoming trickier.
Windows 7 had an XP mode which means that most of the software that businesses have will run on the new operating system. This will improve the OS's chance of getting adopted early. He predicts that within 18 months of Window's 7's release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, will crumble.
Forrester said that the top five Windows 7 features that IT professionals need to prepare for are DirectAccess, which promises to simplify connectivity for Mobile users, BranchCache, which promises to improve branch access networking, BitLocker and BitLocker To Go, which promise to secure the data on hard drives and removable USB thumb drives, AppLocker, which promises to deliver more granular control of user applications and federated search, which promises to simplify access to data across local and remote resources.
"Forrester’s Benjamin Gray said that businesses needed refresh aging IT infrastructure."
"He predicts that within 18 months of Window's 7's release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, will crumble."
Perhaps it's based on Reverse Polish grammar....
Not in this household.
I don’t know if you have a choice on the matter a few years from now. Some friends of mine used to say that they’ll continue using Windows 95 for as long as it takes. Well guess what ? A few years later, they switched to XP.
Here’s what the Forrester report says :
Once Windows 7 enters general release, the ability of IT shops to deploy Windows XP will decline. Within 18 months of the release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, “the OEM licenses bundled with every PC will no longer carry downgrade rights to Windows XP.” This means, essentially, that deploying XP within an enterprise or SMB (small and midsize business) will require either falling back on unused Windows XP volume licenses or purchasing volume license copies of XP along with new PCs. That adds an extra step to the procurement process that IT administrators may be unwilling to take.
Support for Windows XP is also ending, which further complicates matters for any IT shop wanting to hold onto the older operating system. Extended support for Windows XP Service Packs 2 and 3 will end in April 2014, with no updates or patches offered after that date.
I just bought a new Dell mini notebook for my wife. It came with XP SP3. I have no intention of upgrading my home systems (two laptops with the above, and one old Dell tower with Windows 2000). When it works, don’t mess with it...
Not in our’s either. All four stay with the older, safer OS.
So, so you think the new OS will redeem them? A large swathe of the federal government computers and systems still run on XP, and thus provides a captive market for Microsoft.
I have a Delol mini too - primarily for travel for work. I bought it for the XP - my regular laptop has Vista and it sucks big time.
Writer knows nothing about Tarot, just for starters. The trump "Death" is not a death card. Neither is the "Lightning-Struck Tower". You want a death card, the nine or ten of Swords will do the job.
The latter, btw, is not a card of violent death.
It’s dead, Jim.....................
There isn’t any reason to upgrade an existing system to Windows 7 from XP, but there’s no reason to avoid it on a new computer.
I’m running the Release Candidate version of 7 on two machines, including a 4 year old laptop that wouldn’t run Vista. It works very well on both machines and seems as fast as XP on the old laptop. On a modern, dual core machine it’s very fast and has a lot of features that just aren’t on XP. The wireless networking is dramatically better than XP, especially when dealing with interference and intermittent signals.
Windows 98SE is better than Vista.
I still have machines on Win95, though most of the more frequently used ones have been switched to W2k. I used to build a computer a year, but my kids are through college now and have their own laptops (for which I don’t do much h/w support). One kid has an Apple and the other two WinXP. I have reloaded XP due to hard drive crashes and viral infections. The apps, not the o/s get the real work done.
Is that dead hand giving a gang sign?
Redmond Gangsta Disciples?
I bought it for my wife who’s managing a much larger store now, and needs the PC support. We’ve only had it a week. She loves it so far. Microsoft may find fertile ground in business with Windows 7, but I question just how many private PCs will be upgraded, unless they are running Vista, and the owner is willing to lay out the cash.
Og goody. Another Microsoft ‘upgrade’. Since Vista went so well, I am sure this will just as surely be The Thing of the future
i think you’ve been reading a bit too much into the article...and the tarot cards
XP is no longer supported at my very large intracately linked software developer employer (ahem.)
Windows 7 is a dream though. I just installed it and love it. So does eveyone else I know of in this huge borg.
they also rewrote the event logging for Win7.
check out eventvwr in a shell window.
“He predicts that within 18 months of Window’s 7’s release,... , will crumble. “
eWeek hires illiterates who cannot form proper sentences?
Why is that PCs got slower and slower from 1996 until now?
With a new PC with 4GB memory, I finally have a computer that operates faster than what I used in 1996. Win 7 is great. New computer is snappy. I'm more productive than I've been in a decade.
A friend of mine has been reading up on Windows 7 informed me the kernel is a combination of Vista and XP.
I guess that means there are multiple versions to nickel and dime you to death, as is the MS modus operandi.
That particular set of cards was drawn back in the early 1900s by Pamela Colman Smith, so if it's a gang sign it's entirely accidental (but I'm sure the readers would say it's Universal Memory or some such nonsense).
I gave up reading cards many years ago - a relic of my misspent hippie youth.
Both my desktop and laptop run XP, but I bought Windows 7 during the July window when the disks were running $40.
My laptop, an aging Dell Inspiron, is suffering from the weight of XP patch after patch after patch. My desktop, also into the crotchety stage of life, will need replacing first. Installing 7 on my laptop will help me through the learning curve, especially since I don’t use it as often as my desktop.
I figured it out. He predicts IT make for get XP when giving at Windows with a Service Pack for 2010 before shifting doorknob kimono corn syrup regret simple aluminum.
Uh-oh. I’m running Windows 2000 in my garage PC. Fedora up!
I’ve been running a pre-release windows 7 for over a month now. So far no problems at all, none. It’s better then XP and WAY better then Vista.
Windows users should not be afraid to make the switch.
Ahhh, flazzicle.
Will Windows 7 run legacy applications like Microsoft Office 2000?
I'm not in a rush to switch, though. My old beater machine is still running so why blow the $$$?
I'm just glad I didn't get Vista on my machine.
There are Point-of-Sale systems still running on Windows 2000. Win XP will see many years of service after Win 7 is released. A few months ago, it was still retailing at the same price as Vista Ultimate.
I read that loud and clear. I've finally turned off automatic update, and I've often wondered whether I'd be better off rolling back to my SP3 install without all the subsequent updates.
I have 7 on a system here, Vista on a few others, and XP on one. The 7 is faster, runs almost all of the XP, software and all the games(so far), without a hitch.
VISTA, I have to have a shaman come in any time I want to load something new on it, in the hopes of a good install.
Theres no reason why it shouldn’t.
I was just curious. I read upthread that Windows 7 is built on XP and Vista kernels. So, I wondered whether there were Vista components that would interfere with legacy software.
So long, XP
We hardly knew ye!
Sorry for being so merciless and cruel
in making fun of you
when you were released.
If only I had any idea what
Vista had held in store.....
I’ll go whole hog on Windows 7, even on my older 32 bit laptop with a cheap sempron it simply oozes eficiently with a good deal of speed and efficiency;I had downloaded the iso Release candidates for both 32 and 64 bit systems. My 64 bit systems scream now and they are not even top of the line...just imagine what the gaming monster machines are going to do with this OS. 64 bit is now on the map!
Those OS's allowed direct hardware calls, where 2000, XP, etc.....don't.
For that matter, I know of many plants running one flavor of DOS or another. Same reason.
Thanks!
I have one laptop still running Windows 95 to be able to handle projects involving legacy applications, i.e. DOS. I get some projects for upgrading some earlier Modicon PLC’s, which can only be accessed via the old Modsoft (runs in a DOS environment). Even if I am upgrading the system, I still need to access the code in the old system so I can at least match the functionality.
Outsourced writer?
I’ll go whole hog on Windows 7, even on my older 32 bit laptop with a cheap sempron it simply oozes eficiently with a good deal of speed and efficiency;I had downloaded the iso Release candidates for both 32 and 64 bit systems. My 64 bit systems scream now and they are not even top of the line...just imagine what the gaming monster machines are going to do with this OS. 64 bit is now on the map!
What horrible writing.
Why do people who can't write properly insist on publishing their messes?
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