Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 14:33 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is in full swing this week, hot on the heels of the recent PDC. The main subject is, of course, Windows 7. This being a conference focused on hardware makers, Microsoft made a whole slew of announcements related to how Windows 7 will deal with hardware.
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Is there absolutely anyone around at this stage that does not see Vista as Windows Millennium reloaded?
If Microsoft had any business sense, they would provide a free upgrade to anyone who has an original windows vista license. That would do more for their reputation than any major marketing campaign could and it would give them a much needed public relations boost.
I have been running Mandriva on a Medion Akoya netbook and the experience is very smooth and elegant. At the local universities where I have been lecturing, I have seen linux laptops and netbooks popping up everywhere, many of them upgraded from their existing Vista installations. If this trend continues, Microsoft will really be in trouble in 4-6 years. Their development model simply does not scale as well as what the FLOSS community has been able to accomplish as of late: kde4 as a complete rewrite in record time, the linux kernel near ubiquity in all kinds of devices, etc.
A healthy option at this point would be for Microsoft to hedge their bets by preparing a Linux version of some of their applications.