Patrick Benton escribió: > I humbly disagree that XP will stay around for awhile. It is now 3 OS's > behind. its a 8+ year old OS and its showing its age. > > MS has always offered solutions to get prior OSs working under a virtual > environment. Well.. from windows 2000 on. Thats why they purchased > virtual PC so that companys would upgrade to windows 2000 from NT4.0. > Point is, its nothing new. its not like M$ is admitting you should stay > with XP. > > Did I mention that XP is a 8+ year old OS? thats like from Win 3.0 all > the way to win 2000. In other words, if this was the year 2000, what you > said would be akin to "I feel that win 3.1 will stay around for awhile." >
Well, I want to believe that linux is right now a very competitive option. So why any one wants a xp on virtual pc + win7 when they can use a Ubuntu + virtualbox as a replacement?. > anyways, I doubt this was the first time this question was brought up on > the list. and I know it won't be the last. > it wont the last, but how open source works is mainly on the inch of someone that wants a solution. > You DO agree that at some point in our lifetimes?... we'll have to > figure out how to get windows vista and up installed using unattended > right? I mean, at some point Microsoft is going to stop patching it. and > so many security holes that never been patched will be found that it > would be dumb to keep using it. (like how win95 would be a bad idea to > use on the internet) > Up today, I had only installed a one machine with win7 and none with vista, so I do not have the rush of getting that fix. But I would agree that in the future that situation would change, and the pressure of getting vista/win7 support will be must. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
