Nick McGrath, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, is at the spearhead of the software giant's attempts to head off the open source danger. Having helped launched both NT4 and XP into the UK, the 15-year Microsoft veteran now concentrates on combating the threat posed by organisations migrating to Linux. But, with an almost mockingly dismissive opinion of the opportunities brought about by Linux, McGrath is insistent that Microsoft is not losing ground. Instead he claims that Microsoft is winning key corporate and public sector deals on the critical battlegrounds of cost and security.
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Member since:2005-07-06
This is actually a great point -the ungodly requirements just to use.
I picked up a copy of PCWorld in a train station the other day - I used to be an avid subscriber 5 years ago or so and it's where I started expanding my knowledge of the PC world.
Anyway, I was shocked to see an article referring to the author's Athlon XP 3500+ with 1 (maybe 2) GB of RAM and a 250GB HD to be "Mediocre at best."
Huh? Sorry? Excuse me? While it may not render video or handle 3D gaming like a Core 2 Duo, I'm shocked that this magazine had the audacity to print this...
Win XP/Linux is not going to boot much faster on that than my Xp 2000+ with 512mb of RAM and 80gb hd (and yes, I know I need more RAM...) that's over 5 years old. My computer can play the most of the latest games, albeit not with all the settings cranked up.
XGL etc runs flawlessly. I can easily multitask and even handle video encoding pretty well - so I ask, if not to sell Vista, what the heck's the point of the article?
Besides of course inspiring that urge "OMG ME NEED BUY MORE NOW! I need 2.9984% faster iTUNES LAUNCHIN!!!"
Member since:2005-07-06
Any of the cool actual "Features" of Vista have been dropped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista
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2006-01-10
"A lot of that is just left-over dot-bomb hype. As the evangelism and OMG! Cool! factors continue to melt away, we'll see what happens with Linux marketshare."
And the point of Vista is what? Oh yeah, "OMG! Cool!" that have continuously melted away, and what do we have? A beast of an operating system that will require ungodly amounts of hardware to even boot up and be usable.
Any of the cool actual "Features" of Vista have been dropped.
And anyone who can possibly say that Unix security model is a joke is simply a troll or an utter and complete moron.