Posted on 09/08/2006 6:26:11 AM PDT by Hydroshock
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Judging by the grief that Microsoft is getting over delays in the release of Windows Vista, and the buzz surrounding the price it plans to charge for the next generation operating system, you'd think we were all hankering to get our hands on this hot new piece of software.
Don't believe the hype: There won't be lines around the block at midnight when Vista hits store shelves early next year, analysts say.
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"I don't expect anyone's going to be camping out at Best Buy waiting for this product," says Citigroup equity research analyst Brent Thill. "I think the pace of adoption will be slower than the market expects."
They can get it for you wholesale
Microsoft (Charts) gets more than 80 percent of its $13 billion in annual Windows revenue from PC makers, who install the operating system on new PCs. The cost of Windows - estimated at around $70 - is included in the price we pay when we buy a new PC. The proportion of people who buy copies of Windows at retail to install on their PCs is vanishingly small.
And the version of Windows that those retail customers have on their PC hardly figures into the equation. By and large, we buy a new PC when we need another one.
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Installs on top of just about any OS or architecture.
Leave MS experiments where they belong...only launched through a virtual host for test purposes.
If you have room, check out the debian-based side of life with Gentoo. http://www.gentoo.org
Um, not true. Xandros is an extremely Win-expatriated user friendly OS. There are handfuls aimed directly at the fed up windows user.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
I lived in Vista, CA for three months, and I agree--it sucks and I hate Vista. :)
Was even able to get PuppyLinux to install to a bootable 4GB USB drive the other evening.
That is why we locked out the USb's here at work. You can get linux to install on one of those and reboot the system so it looks at teh usb first and then use it to read what is on the ntfs partitions. Security risk.
I just took a look, and I'm sure it's nice for the apps that are part of the install, but for anything more than that (especially the server side, such as the aforementioned Squid), the same problems with ease-of-use persist.
worked fine for me, except ATI needs to make Vista drivers for the TV card..
i think it funny that everyone bashing Vista here will have it within 2 years because XP will become long-in-the-tooth and you will want the extra features functionality of Vista when the new processors come out.
For not paying rent.
MS has already stopped supporting Windows XP up to, and including, Service Pack 1.
I started programming in 1975.
I took the company, that I still work for, from having two stand-alone 8088s to the seventh-generation network of P4s they are running today.
Your take on this next OS is right on the money. Do not let any computer geek snob try to intimidate you into thinking any differently.
My respects.
5 whole years? Jeeze. I have a desktop that has more years than you. Heck, I have CHEESE in my freezer with more time than that.
I started in 1977. I have lost count of my Microsoft Certs -- I can get one in 24 hours by doing a class and then doing the Cert course. I get them as needed by my upcoming assignments. I have been tech leader of installations for companies with 200,000 employees and 10+ billion dollars a year. I have 4 servers in my upstairs office (2 linux, 2 Win 2K/XP Pro).
Trust me, you don't want to point to your 5 whole years of experience again (at least here in FR) as some sort of proof you are anything beyond diaper trained.
Hollerith cards and tape-in tape-out. Writing Assembler code to create things that don't exist yet. And when P0 came along , man what a relief.
I took the company, that I still work for, from having two stand-alone 8088s to the seventh-generation network of P4s they are running today.
You got me -- I started on mainframes with BAL and didn't get into the smaller systems until we have Z80 processors (I know, I was spoiled).
My little experience still qualifies me to have an opinion... =) I don't like Vista...
I'm going on my 13th day of iMAC use.
I got the iMAC 20" on the 27th of Aug...it's really great.
Tomorrow I'm trading in the 20" on the new 24"iMAC.
I won't have to worry about Vista. My XP Box will just keep running what it has until it burns up. I'm DONE with it.
This iMAC networked by WiFi with my XP box within minutes.
I didn't have to do a thing except type in my WEP PW.
G
I hate computers.
Me, too.
Ahh, yes indeed.
Vista doesn't apparently give us much. SUN had a cool OS proposal/beta that looked like Windows but had lots of nifty features (like using the back side of individual windows).
But it was SUN and thus couldn't live.
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