Posted on 04/12/2007 8:20:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The IT world force engineers to give up their UNIX based design boxes ( SGI, Sun, Dec Alpha- ect) and move to windows NT for compatability - now we’re on XP - we’ve tested design software on VISTA and because most design softare is OPEN GL based it runs THREE to FIFTY times SLOWER on Vista.. The Wally’s of the world will love it.. Sorry Boss it’s still crunching on my new Terahertz Terabyte Terrible Vista machine.
Of course I was probably about the last person I know of to get off of W2K and now that I am on XP, I will only come off of that kicking and screaming. I gave up on being bleeding-edge in the computer industry 15 years ago."
DITTO
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In fact, Boot Camp may be the piece that actually makes up for those drawbacks and gets me over to a Mac.
A little bit more but not much. OS 10.1 came out in Sept. 2001 and the last tower that could boot OS 9 came out in June 2003. BUT that computer, the Power Mac G4/1.25 GHz, was sold into 2004 IIRC.
Of course, a lot would argue that the first usable OS X was 10.3, which came out in late 2003.
LMAO, typical anti-Microsoft bunk, couldn't even get the first two sentences to add up. What's amazing is you didn't post it from your usual foreign "sources".
ROFL there’s already more users of Vista than all versions of Linux combined.
Nice!!
That is one HELL of a variation on the "System Restore" theme. =;^)
Only under the assumption that Vista has something to offer that couldn't be put into XP. Invalid assumption, of course.
Ubuntu, Fedora, or SuSE
Do you suppose Microsoft hears any better than, say, Congress or the President?
You obviously don’t have much experience with enterprise desktop deployment if you think this is any sort of an issue for an IT department to deal with. What’s even funnier your supposed solution Linux pretty much requires you upgrade EVERY two years to keep up, while Windows XP will be supported until 2014. Name one Linux product shipping today that guarantees security updates till 2014. You’ve got 300 different versions to choose from, surely there is one is currently promising patches till 2014?
two Problems with That
1) My Ideal Solution on the desktop is Apple not Linux despite your obsessive screaming to the contrary
2) RedHat Linux has a seven year support cycle for RHLE which includes their workstation so if you set up some RHEL5 workstations today you could wait five years until you started to upgrade. (Were you ignorant of this or jut lying?)
Name one Linux product shipping today that guarantees security updates till 2014.
Red Hat Enterprise 5 Will be under Full Support (Bug Fixes, Enhancements, and Security patches) Until March of 2014.
Win2K Pro for me too, both at work and at home (except for my linux machines...one to play with, and one dedicated to running Folding@Home...)
But that costs a whole lot more than XP, you have to pay a subscription cost for every single year you use it. Plus XP has been out since 2001, RHEL5 has just been released and they're going to cut it off in 2014, after charging all that money for it? Sounds like a rip off compared to XP, which according to the despair shown here everyone must love.
Obviously I asked a question, unlike you yesterday claiming it was q quote "fact" that Dell had already cut off shipments of XP, which are actually going to continue into at least 2008. You've also been caught claiming Microsoft has cut off support for Windows 2000 when again the truth is the are supplying patches till 2010. It's pretty hilarious watching try to criticize Windows support when it's actually much cheaper and lasts much longer than Red Hat's support does.
It's not just about anything that Vista gives, but from Microsoft's point of view it's about support. It would cost a lot of money to put equivalent features in both XP and Vista. You saw they didn't want to do IE7 for XP until people got pissed about it. It also costs Microsoft money to continue to support XP for much longer, and ending OEM sales is the first step towards that end.
In any case, XP will be available until January 31, 2009.
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