Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 3rd Apr 2008 22:40 UTC
Microsoft will shutter its Windows XP line June 30, as planned, ceasing sales of Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home to retailers and direct OEMs, Microsoft confirmed to eWEEK April 3. The statement from Redmond executives ends weeks of speculation that Microsoft would extend the life of the operating system as users turn up their nose at Vista, the operating system meant to supplant XP, and OEMs argue lighter versions of desktops and notebooks don't have the juice to run Vista.
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RE[7]: Vista is the future
by lemur2 on Fri 4th Apr 2008 15:52
in reply to "RE[6]: Vista is the future"
Member since:2007-02-17
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Well it is fine if you want to run an OS that will end up costing you in additional software four times the cost of your newegg computer and which will then be slower on that hardware than a free alternative OS,
Well it is fine if you want to run an OS that will end up costing you in additional software four times the cost of your newegg computer and which will then be slower on that hardware than a free alternative OS,
Oh don't worry; OpenOffice.org runs just as slow under Vista as it does under Linux. =) Please specify the software you're referring to that I personally use that costs me four times as much. "
If you are using FOSS software that runs on Vista or XP ... then you can run the same software at the same cost on Linux with less hassle ... Linux doesn't have Vista slowness issues.
If you are using expensive proprietary software that runs only on Windows ... games, MS Office, anti-virus ... nothing special ... then it will cost you in total four times or more as much as your $350 worth of computer hardware.
Not run into this so far; it works with my Canon scanner, my HP AiO, and all Laserjets I've tried. But okay.
All it takes is to have a peripheral that was out of production before Vista was released. Very few peripheral manufacturers write new drivers for out-of-production hardware.
Yeah, because .mp3, .doc, .jpg, and .mpg are so incredibly obscure. :\
Note that Obscured != Obscure, and also Obscured != ubiquitous.
I have had many issues with data stored in previous versions of MS Office that is not readable with any software that I can purchase today from Microsoft.
OpenOffice is very often better at reading such data than Microsoft is ... and I do mean .doc files. These formats once were ubiquitous, not obscure at all ... but they are most certainly obscured.
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2005-07-06
Well it is fine if you want to run an OS that will end up costing you in additional software four times the cost of your newegg computer and which will then be slower on that hardware than a free alternative OS,
Oh don't worry; OpenOffice.org runs just as slow under Vista as it does under Linux. =) Please specify the software you're referring to that I personally use that costs me four times as much.
Yes, but that's mostly just in Vista: Tinfoil Hat Edition.
Not run into this so far; it works with my Canon scanner, my HP AiO, and all Laserjets I've tried. But okay.
Yeah, because .mp3, .doc, .jpg, and .mpg are so incredibly obscure. :\
On OSNews, apparently you can only like Linux or Windows or OSX. Never shall the three meet.
Unlike a lot of people I am guessing, I actually use both in a production environment for business, not for fun.
It's in this daily operation I can see what each are good at, and where they both need work.
Luckily we're migrating to Likewise Enterprise and Ubuntu instead of continuing with NIS and SuSe. That should really improve things on the Linux side.
Edited 2008-04-04 15:31 UTC