Linked by David Adams on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 17:23 UTC
Hot on the heels of our previous story outlining the fiasco that Vista's release has been, TechRepublic's Jason Hiner predicts that Microsoft is aware of its blunder and will respond by making a release of Windows 7 ahead of schedule (primarily by overhauling Vista and calling it Windows 7, it seems) in order to encourage its enterprise clients to upgrade directly from XP to Windows 7.
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RE[2]: Vista is just fine for me
by beosfrance on Thu 24th Apr 2008 08:22
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RE[3]: Vista is just fine for me
by Doc Pain on Thu 24th Apr 2008 17:04
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Inkjet home printers are not manufactured to live 10 years 
This is what I wanted to say. Going more off-topic, I think nearly all "modern" home customer hardware is designed to have a short life, just think about DVD drives. Just to scare you, I still have a HP Laserjet 4 that works perfectly (!) - I'm using it more than 10 years now, and I don't know how the previous owner treated the printer, at least I wasn't a very kind printer owner. In opposite, I hear lots of firends and family aound me begging to fix their "new" printers for free - they usually bought cheap or expensive inkjet printers (sometimes even multifunctional printers with scanner unit and other stuff) - because the "new" thing did strange things (printing without having something on the paper, refusing to work in general, requesting to press keys that do not exist etc.). It's hard to explain that this behaviour is completely intended. Well, that's what we call "Lehrgeld" (tr.: apprentice's premium / to learn it the hard way) im Germany, but they don't learn. :-)
Going even mor off-topic, life costs are increasing in Germany. Simple food (milk, bread, meat, vegetables etc.) are getting more and more expensive, but especially inkjet printers and flatscreen monitors are getting more cheap. Just too sad that I can't eat them. :-)
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In some settings, this is realized via a mainframe class computer running (even older) accounting software because its operating systems allows it to, and the terminal nodes are regular PCs, running whatever "Windows" the company wishes. This concept allows a differentiation between "we bought this programs years ago" and "we need the newest 'Windows' on our desktops" requirements.
Of course, that's how it is intended to.
You're mentioning a valid point here. I'd like to add that not only corporate customers suffer from this "radical break", but also gamers who have their games running happily on "XP", and then encountering problems running them on "Vista" they got with their new gaming PC.
But let me - just as a sidenote - introduce the fact that you can have it both ways, but of course not with "Windows". For example, the FreeBSD OS version 7 allows you to run 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x applications just by installing the corresponding compat libraries. And I can imagine something similar would be possible with "Windows", too, but only if you get some kind of emulator or virtual machine running.
Why these big year numbers? Try half of the values, doesn't work, too. :-) But you're right, any kind of backwards compatibility to applications and hardware won't happen, I'm sure. Why? Because it's not intended. Buy. Buy now. Buy more. Buy and... be happy. =^_^=
Furthermore, I don't think 10 years old printers will work (except they are professional office products, not the inkjet toys, in such cases they are capable of standard interfaces, such as PS or PCL which will allow any (!) OS to use them).