Tech Ping?
The mandatory interface changes in Office 2007, the hardware requirements imposed by both Office 2007 and Windows Vista...well, we are going to upgrade to Ubuntu and OpenOffice instead of forking over more money to Microsoft.
At least if you buy an Apple product, you get something decent. There is no compelling reason to buy Microsoft Windows or Office any more, at least, from the perspective of an individual or a family.
IMHO, I suspect winxp sp2 is the apex of MS’s i86 software...perhaps even of Microsoft altogether unless Gates goes somewhere else.....office 2007/Vista...basically no good reason to go further. Advances in security, functionality at the software level will prob be on the Unix/BSD/Linux platforms..
The fix is OS/X, and it’s widely available today. ;)
Might not be a good year to buy a windows desktop maybe folks should give Linux a spin ;)
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Wow, from Windows 7 in 2010 to waiting for Vista SP1 in 2009? That’s a lot of schedule slip.
I really won’t need new computers for my office until next year, but I’m going to accelerate the purchases so I can get them with XP Pro before MS discontinues it. I was hoping the new systems would last me long enough that I could go straight from XP to 7 and skip Vista entirely.
You can still buy a Dell with Windows XP.