Posted on 05/03/2009 11:22:20 PM PDT by JoeProBono
How long does Microsoft plan to keep selling copies of its Windows Vista operating system after the upcoming launch of Windows 7? The company isn't saying. With previous versions of Windows, Microsoft used a transition period when old and new versions of Windows were available to help corporate customers manage their transition to the new version of the operating system. This time Microsoft aims to put the ghosts of its Vista troubles to rest as soon as possible, and could stop selling Vista as soon as Windows 7 is released. "We are still not sure if [computer makers] will be able to ship Vista once Windows 7 is made available. Having said that, an enterprise customer that purchases a PC with Windows 7 pre-installed is allowed to downgrade to Vista should they desire, similar to what we have today on Vista to XP," wrote Richard Francis, general manager and Windows client business group lead at Microsoft Asia-Pacific, in an e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
When will SP2 be available for Windows 7? I consider any version of Windows, prior to SP2, to be Beta.
WTF?
tech list PING!
> The continued availability of Windows XP during a transition period after Windows 7’s release will reassure users who have avoided upgrading to Windows Vista and may be wary of the new operating system.
Found this link right beside the thread article.
Alright.
I have XP Pro, and never used Vista: may have to pass on 7, too.
VISTA: glad I missed ya.
I love the 64 Bit XP and will probably not move to version 7 unless they prove it is not a crawling POS and their DRM is not from the age of Stalin.
It is actually much better than VISTA except for the DRM which is even worse.
The SP2 beta finally made Vista almost “comfy” for me. It fixed most of the worst bugs.
"It's been a long time since we've had a version of Windows that will actually run better [than the previous version] on the hardware that most customers have," Nash said. - Mike Nash, corporate vice president of the Windows product management group at Microsoft
Thanks for the warning, Mike.
bump
I LOVE CTRL+ALT+DEL. Unfortunately my megalomaniacal security group seems to think that this is unproductive material and blocks it.
That being said, I use Vista Ultimate x64 edition at home for gaming. My other machines, including my server, all run some flavor of Linux (Fedora 10 for laptop, Ubuntu for server). I really don’t mind Vista. It takes FOREVER to get it configured in the manner that it most comfortable to your use, but with 8 GB RAM, 2 160 GB SATA disks in a RAID1, 2 512 MB PCI-Express vid cards in SLI configuration, and a Core i7 processor behind it all, Vista runs like it’s supposed to(all 6’s on the experience meter).
Vista will become the next ME: dustbin material. But it’s MUCH more functional than ME ever was.
DRM is why I won't buy Vista. Not that I want to steal content, but if they want me to pay for a product, it needs to be developed to meet my interests AND NO ONE ELSE'S. And then there's the hardware theft. All those hard drive sectors, bytes of RAM, and CPU cycles, the hardware for which and the power to run which I PAID FOR!!! and which they're willing to sacrifice for the benefit of third parties not a part of the transaction to buy the software. They shouldn't expect to steal from me, call it "Rights Management", as if my rights needed managing, and still expect me to line up pay them for it.
Don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel about DRM.
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