Thane,
I would really love do shove some love toward MS, but, sadly, I am out of
love here.
I am looking a major money upgrades just to go to XP. But, it is on the
chopping block.
I live very happily on W2Ksp4, thank you. I know, UCan tell me to get on
with it.
My question is WHY?
I am still wondering about windown XP.
If you believe big corporate IT depts just deal with this stuff as
"business as usual" sorry.
Thane, it just does not happen.
I think I understand your operation. You are the single person that gets to
make the decision.
Fine. How many folk get affected by your choice?
Please write me back when your enterprise has >400K bodies using 'windows.'
And, you make your decision.
Perhaps you have lots of cash in the bank to cover contingencies.'
Yes, a bit of a shot, but not a big one, I hope.
Personally, MS deserves no "love" except for foisting it on all of us. Yes,
Windows is better than MS-DOS. But then, that is just me (and I can take
all the bad for admitting this!)
OK-hdw did not stay in track with MS. So what?
OK-I forgot the question.
Is my hdw decision dependent upon which OS I choose to use?
I certainly hope not. Certainly reads this way, however.............. :)
Best,
Duncan
At 19:17 06/26/2008 -0300, you wrote:
Well MS kept back 64 bit XP until Intel fixed their CPUs so that AMD
wouldn't have a big jump on Intel in that department - I'd think MS would
be expecting some love in return.
T
At 07:06 PM 26/06/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
Winterlight,
I does appear that "business" just does not support Vista. (yet).
I can not say I blame them (based on the vitriol I have read on this list.)
Even so. Why do you expect Intel and/or AMD to march in lock-step with
whatever S. Balmer dictates?
Intel/AMD does hardware. MS does software. We all know that there is
plenty of SW that works fine on the current/future hardware............?
Is this divided loyalty?
Is this about a bit of "fan-boy?"
I just do not understand your vent.
Best,
Duncan
At 08:55 06/26/2008 -0700, you wrote:
Reports: Intel to skip Vista upgrade
For any given release of Windows, there are companies that choose to
skip it. But when the company is Intel, it's a big deal.
Following a report Monday on the Inquirer, the New York Times reported
Wednesday that Intel's IT department "found no compelling case" for
upgrading. Ouch.
And that's despite the fact that it's been nearly seven years since XP
debuted. It's not a good thing, if your customers are electing to stick
with 7-year-old technology. (In fairness, XP did get a fairly big update
with Windows XP Service Pack 2, but even that is four years old at this point.)
Microsoft, which once predicted businesses would adopt Vista at twice
the rate they moved to XP, has scaled back its ambitions and these days
talks a lot about how long the adoption curve is for businesses when it
comes to new operating systems.
