Sunday, April 15, 2007
Windows XP execution date set
"Fister or bust" says the Inquirer, could be a mildly obscene pun on the OS. I am not sure what they mean by that but I doubt if it is intended to be complimentary to Microsoft. According to the Microsoft diktat, The OEM version of XP Professional goes next January... At that point, the box-shifters will have no choice. All Vista from then on.
Microsoft's position is not one that is likely to be universally welcomed. The price of progress people, so suck it up.
But Direct2Dell said "Dell recognizes the needs of small business customers and understands that more time is needed to transition to a new operating system."
Microsoft dropped by Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs recently removed Microsoft from its annual ‘Elite Conviction Buy List’, noting that while the stock was still worth buying, it no longer had the same allure as before. "Vista may be the last big operating system developed by the company," Goldman Sachs has said.
IMO: If so, no wonder that they wish to foist Vista on everyone.
Microsoft recently found itself in a lawsuit that charged it with deceptive practices by letting PC-makers put a `Vista Capable’ sticker on PCs -- even when some buyers wouldn't be able to run the new operating system's most-promoted features. The suit claims that Microsoft unfairly labeled PCs as `Windows Vista Capable’ even when the computers could run only the most basic form of the OS. Moreover, many of the machines with the label cannot or poorly run Home Premium, the least expensive version of Vista. The suit noted that Home Basic lacks many of the features, among them the new Aero interface, that Microsoft had heavily advertised as reasons why users should migrate to Vista.
Vista faces huge compatibility and performance issues. Users have been complaining that Vista takes too long to start and shutdown, so also the application loading takes longer than Windows XP. These are highly important factors if you use a computer a lot. And, the Gen-Next operating system has been rather slow on the uptake among a majority of professional PC users.
IMO: I would be probably happiest with a slightly updated W98, and in effect use even XP under protest. According to likely volatile RAM requirements, there are no computers easily available, say at the reasonable PCWorld, which have enough volatile RAM yet, although one assumes that their 'Vista -capable' range will run Vista well enough for the undemanding. It is a sad prospect and one hopes that such measures as the use of plugin USB RAM (presumably using Vista Superfetch), now available relatively inexpensively, may eventually at least fill in as a stopgap on the RAM front.And then there is hardware compatability - do not even consider buying a Vista software update for your existing machine, people have tried that. Hopefully time will sort out the Vista problems.
Microsoft's position is not one that is likely to be universally welcomed. The price of progress people, so suck it up.
But Direct2Dell said "Dell recognizes the needs of small business customers and understands that more time is needed to transition to a new operating system."
Microsoft dropped by Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs recently removed Microsoft from its annual ‘Elite Conviction Buy List’, noting that while the stock was still worth buying, it no longer had the same allure as before. "Vista may be the last big operating system developed by the company," Goldman Sachs has said.
IMO: If so, no wonder that they wish to foist Vista on everyone.
Microsoft recently found itself in a lawsuit that charged it with deceptive practices by letting PC-makers put a `Vista Capable’ sticker on PCs -- even when some buyers wouldn't be able to run the new operating system's most-promoted features. The suit claims that Microsoft unfairly labeled PCs as `Windows Vista Capable’ even when the computers could run only the most basic form of the OS. Moreover, many of the machines with the label cannot or poorly run Home Premium, the least expensive version of Vista. The suit noted that Home Basic lacks many of the features, among them the new Aero interface, that Microsoft had heavily advertised as reasons why users should migrate to Vista.
Vista faces huge compatibility and performance issues. Users have been complaining that Vista takes too long to start and shutdown, so also the application loading takes longer than Windows XP. These are highly important factors if you use a computer a lot. And, the Gen-Next operating system has been rather slow on the uptake among a majority of professional PC users.
IMO: I would be probably happiest with a slightly updated W98, and in effect use even XP under protest. According to likely volatile RAM requirements, there are no computers easily available, say at the reasonable PCWorld, which have enough volatile RAM yet, although one assumes that their 'Vista -capable' range will run Vista well enough for the undemanding. It is a sad prospect and one hopes that such measures as the use of plugin USB RAM (presumably using Vista Superfetch), now available relatively inexpensively, may eventually at least fill in as a stopgap on the RAM front.And then there is hardware compatability - do not even consider buying a Vista software update for your existing machine, people have tried that. Hopefully time will sort out the Vista problems.
# posted by uv : 6:26 AM
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