Writer knows nothing about Tarot, just for starters. The trump "Death" is not a death card. Neither is the "Lightning-Struck Tower". You want a death card, the nine or ten of Swords will do the job.
The latter, btw, is not a card of violent death.
Posted on 10/19/2009 11:45:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
XP's long reign over the hearts and minds of corporates will end on October 22 when Windows 7 is launched, predicts analysts Forester.
Soothsayers in Forester's tarot reading division have pulled the Death card for Windows XP on the corporate desktop. Forrester’s Benjamin Gray said that businesses needed refresh aging IT infrastructure. There was also a predicted end to XP support and getting copies of the operating system was becoming trickier.
Windows 7 had an XP mode which means that most of the software that businesses have will run on the new operating system. This will improve the OS's chance of getting adopted early. He predicts that within 18 months of Window's 7's release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, will crumble.
Forrester said that the top five Windows 7 features that IT professionals need to prepare for are DirectAccess, which promises to simplify connectivity for Mobile users, BranchCache, which promises to improve branch access networking, BitLocker and BitLocker To Go, which promise to secure the data on hard drives and removable USB thumb drives, AppLocker, which promises to deliver more granular control of user applications and federated search, which promises to simplify access to data across local and remote resources.
"Forrester’s Benjamin Gray said that businesses needed refresh aging IT infrastructure."
"He predicts that within 18 months of Window's 7's release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, will crumble."
Perhaps it's based on Reverse Polish grammar....
Not in this household.
I don’t know if you have a choice on the matter a few years from now. Some friends of mine used to say that they’ll continue using Windows 95 for as long as it takes. Well guess what ? A few years later, they switched to XP.
Here’s what the Forrester report says :
Once Windows 7 enters general release, the ability of IT shops to deploy Windows XP will decline. Within 18 months of the release, or with the release of the first Windows 7 service pack, “the OEM licenses bundled with every PC will no longer carry downgrade rights to Windows XP.” This means, essentially, that deploying XP within an enterprise or SMB (small and midsize business) will require either falling back on unused Windows XP volume licenses or purchasing volume license copies of XP along with new PCs. That adds an extra step to the procurement process that IT administrators may be unwilling to take.
Support for Windows XP is also ending, which further complicates matters for any IT shop wanting to hold onto the older operating system. Extended support for Windows XP Service Packs 2 and 3 will end in April 2014, with no updates or patches offered after that date.
I just bought a new Dell mini notebook for my wife. It came with XP SP3. I have no intention of upgrading my home systems (two laptops with the above, and one old Dell tower with Windows 2000). When it works, don’t mess with it...
Not in our’s either. All four stay with the older, safer OS.
So, so you think the new OS will redeem them? A large swathe of the federal government computers and systems still run on XP, and thus provides a captive market for Microsoft.
I have a Delol mini too - primarily for travel for work. I bought it for the XP - my regular laptop has Vista and it sucks big time.
Writer knows nothing about Tarot, just for starters. The trump "Death" is not a death card. Neither is the "Lightning-Struck Tower". You want a death card, the nine or ten of Swords will do the job.
The latter, btw, is not a card of violent death.
It’s dead, Jim.....................
There isn’t any reason to upgrade an existing system to Windows 7 from XP, but there’s no reason to avoid it on a new computer.
I’m running the Release Candidate version of 7 on two machines, including a 4 year old laptop that wouldn’t run Vista. It works very well on both machines and seems as fast as XP on the old laptop. On a modern, dual core machine it’s very fast and has a lot of features that just aren’t on XP. The wireless networking is dramatically better than XP, especially when dealing with interference and intermittent signals.
Windows 98SE is better than Vista.
I still have machines on Win95, though most of the more frequently used ones have been switched to W2k. I used to build a computer a year, but my kids are through college now and have their own laptops (for which I don’t do much h/w support). One kid has an Apple and the other two WinXP. I have reloaded XP due to hard drive crashes and viral infections. The apps, not the o/s get the real work done.
Is that dead hand giving a gang sign?
Redmond Gangsta Disciples?
I bought it for my wife who’s managing a much larger store now, and needs the PC support. We’ve only had it a week. She loves it so far. Microsoft may find fertile ground in business with Windows 7, but I question just how many private PCs will be upgraded, unless they are running Vista, and the owner is willing to lay out the cash.
Og goody. Another Microsoft ‘upgrade’. Since Vista went so well, I am sure this will just as surely be The Thing of the future
i think you’ve been reading a bit too much into the article...and the tarot cards
XP is no longer supported at my very large intracately linked software developer employer (ahem.)
Windows 7 is a dream though. I just installed it and love it. So does eveyone else I know of in this huge borg.
they also rewrote the event logging for Win7.
check out eventvwr in a shell window.
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