Posted on 04/21/2007 7:13:38 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
This is a stupid article. The Inquirer thinks that MS is selling Vista for $3, when in reality it is a crippled XP. Getting that basic fact wrong, to me, invalidates their whole premise.
Just installed new HDDs in mine and the wife’s PCs. I put XP on both. I’ve got MS certs out the wazoo and I’m not putting Vista on any of my stuff.
Businessmen are savvy but stupid.
I came over to the business world from scientific computing (UNIX) and was in literal "shock and awe" for about two years that anyone would ever put up with anything as kludge-ridden and dysfunctional as windows; let alone be impressed by it.
I had always taken it as a *given* that the OS would be stable and that applications would work as promised.
No such luck.
Cheers!
it happened after bill took windows off of the dos platform.
Yeh, I read that it was $3 XP as well which is strange cause I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.
LOL
My opinion is that this program is just a product dump--they want to truthfaully say that they have no more copies of XP to sell to the US, so we must buy Vista instead. It's just another ploy to push everyone onto the latest, and continue the revenue stream.
Nothing more.
As the owner of two highly successful businesses I strongly disagree with your statement. From our original DOS based PC's to our state-of-the art network we have found MS products relatively easy to use and have been extremely stable with zero crashes over the last 19 years.
More power to you, then :-)
the inquirer is rarely 100% , possibly even 80% or 70 or 60 correct and lately all they have become is a anti-MS clearing house.
Soon is 2009, which considering that XP has been around since 2002 is a pretty long time for them.
Could be, but likely isn’t. XP and Vista have different kernels and different ways of installing software and drivers. Considering that support for his product has been discontinued by the company it’s unlikely that it will ever work, unless some home programmer figures out a way to get it to install.
“From our original DOS based PC’s to our state-of-the art network we have found MS products relatively easy to use and have been extremely stable with zero crashes over the last 19 years.”
Congratulations! If that is true (no offense to you but I highly doubt it) you are certainly the only person in the world who has experienced that.
I have worked as a Microsoft professional for 10 years supporting their products in government and fortune 500 companies. I simply do not believe your statement. 19 years and no crashes? That’s like walking through a rainstorm and not getting wet. Again, you may be honest. If you are honest, you are definitely a record-holder....but I don’t think so.
> ... I also read that MS is going to stop supporting XP soon.
What you read was that MS is going to stop selling
the OEM versions of XP by the end of 2007. This move is
intended to force PC makers onto Vista. It also affects
PC home-builders.
The support life of XP will be many years, although MS
could sabotage that in any number of ways.
I haven’t seen anything on retail XP availability
(upgrades and full-install versions).
I personally don’t care what you may think or believe but the fact remains...NEVER A CRASH...NEVER.
PING!
“you hafta wonda how the world’s richest man
got rich from this pos?”
Extremely intelligent marketing.
Academics have
very smart grad students to
do computer work,
as well as tech geeks
on call. Microsoft has to
provide software that
"empowers" people
doing everything themselves.
And many people
are extremely dumb.
And many people have needs
that are quite outside
(some mundane some weird)
what academics require.
Windows fits that world.
I won’t. I’ll lock myself down to a Mac because they are superlative. Thanks
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