I don't see Corporate business being won over by Win v7 unless the intrusive 'Content Protection', as in media degradation/re-structure (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html) and the ability to collect data by any 3rd party included in Microsoft's club (see the Vista EULA quote below) are removed.
Also, in my experience, the "slow-moving hardware performance" had absolutely nothing to do with hardware, but rather everything to do with extra processes running in the background of Vista. When a brand new computer with 2GB of RAM, no anti-virus installed and not connected to a network is continually running the hard drive for hours while in blank screen saver mode with the unit's screen powered down -- it is not slow hardware. But then I may be thinking too much... >From the Vista EULA: "Consent to Use of Data. You agree that Microsoft and its affiliates may collect and use technical information gathered in any manner" (Unabashed self-plug:) Article: 'Who owns your computer?" http://itdiaries.com/2005/08/30/who-owns-the-data-on-your-computer/ Sincerely, Daniel H. Renner President Los Angeles Computerhelp A division of Computerhelp, Inc. 818-352-8700 http://losangelescomputerhelp.com "Inactivity is death" - Benito Mussolini (Even evil dictators know the truth...) [email protected] wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:57:33 -0500 > From: "Larry Seltzer" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [funsec] Windows 7 Beta review link > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >> >> Just Vista SP2, really... > > Lots of truth in this. Most of the praise for Win7 seems to me less > about Win7 itself than as a swipe at Vista. In fact little that people > criticize in Vista will change in Win7, it's just that Vista "took one > for the team" by forcing driver developers to catch up, for app > developers to rearchitect so their users wouldn't have to deal with UAC, > and for going through an era relatively slow-moving hardware performance > improvement. These situations will all have improved by the time Win7 > comes out, making it seem more architected to the times than Vista was. > > Why am I writing this here? I could blog this and get paid for it. > > Larry Seltzer > eWEEK.com Security Center Editor > http://security.eweek.com/ > http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/ > Contributing Editor, PC Magazine > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
