Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th Jun 2007 21:39 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Microsoft is simplifying the processes via which its PC-maker partners will be able to provide 'downgrade' rights from Windows Vista to Windows XP for their customers. Microsoft will implement the first of the policy changes for its Gold Certified (top-tier) OEM partners within the next couple of weeks. The company will streamline downgrade-rights policies and procedures for the broader channel somewhat later, said John Ball, general manager of Microsoft's US Systems Group.
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RE: Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble
by jayson.knight on Fri 29th Jun 2007 00:16
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"Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble"
You're not going to hear about OSX rollouts because they don't exist in the business world, which is where all large scale rollouts take place. Businesses usually have a homogeneous set of hardware deployed, so if Vista doesn't work on one machine, it's a good bet it won't work on most of them, and thus those kinds of stories make headlines.
This isn't about consumers, this is targeting large scale licensees.
RE: Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble
by Soulbender on Fri 29th Jun 2007 03:34
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RE: Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble
by google_ninja on Fri 29th Jun 2007 04:38
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RE: Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble
by Laurence on Fri 29th Jun 2007 11:02
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RE[2]: Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble
by REM2000 on Fri 29th Jun 2007 11:42
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The OSX updates 10.4 10.5 are the same as windows moving from Win2k (5.0) WinXP (5.1).
The mac does have service packs like windows 10.4.1 10.4.2 etc.. (SP1, SP2).
The main difference i have seen is that with every release on the Mac it gets quicker, where as every release after Win2k seems to get slower. Personally i think Win2k was the last great Client OS from Microsoft.
OSX is moving more and more as a viable platform simply because a lot of companies are now implementing their business logic and software on web platforms, accessible by any computer. It's as if the IT world has come full circle with the mainframes to client server and now back to mainframe type working (i.e. central computer (farm) provides the UI, processing and data storage.
Windows will never go away overnight and probably never will as although it has it's problems it works mostly well.
Microsoft is a strange company, if there's no competition they give up and release stale useless products. Give them competition and they work damn hard and provide some good stuff. I love Windows 2003 server i think it's a solid product, i don't really like Vista as there are far too many problems with it (network stalling, high memory usage) however because Mac OSX and Linux are now serious compeition i expect the release after Vista R2 to be very good.
RE[2]: Never a new MacOSX caused any appreciable trouble
by Kroc on Fri 29th Jun 2007 14:27
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
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Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 22:15 UTC, submitted by Tom
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 21:41 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 17:04 UTC
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/16/13 13:17 UTC
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On the contrary. Let those people upgrade to THE better OS.