Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 28th Jul 2008 18:42 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Business PC buyers are still overwhelmingly opting for XP, computer giant HP has revealed. Yet at the same time, Microsoft is claiming that Vista is selling faster than XP ever did ... so where's the truth? HP, which is the world's number one computer maker, has explained how Microsoft comes up with these dubious statistics.
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...why MS need us to adopt Vista (well, one of the reasons)...
Vista has a lot of new tech under the hood that would make development of new products easier for them. There is a newer driver model, newer gfx libraries and so on...
This is the same for Apple with Leopard. If most of the user base is on Leopard, then iLife stuff can use Core Animation for instance, but if a lot of users are holding back then they may not be able too.
Actually, the thing that puzzles me is why 2k3 (I haven't tried 2k8 yet, so maybe that one) isn't flying off the shelves. I have to run 2k3, XP and Vista at work and would choose 2k3 for it's size and speed any day over the others, XP feels old and slow in comparison, Vista feels new and old - lol... If you are not a gamer and need an MS environment then have a look at 2k3 or 2k8...
Vista has a lot of new tech under the hood that would make development of new products easier for them. There is a newer driver model, newer gfx libraries and so on...
This is the same for Apple with Leopard. If most of the user base is on Leopard, then iLife stuff can use Core Animation for instance, but if a lot of users are holding back then they may not be able too.
Actually, the thing that puzzles me is why 2k3 (I haven't tried 2k8 yet, so maybe that one) isn't flying off the shelves. I have to run 2k3, XP and Vista at work and would choose 2k3 for it's size and speed any day over the others, XP feels old and slow in comparison, Vista feels new and old - lol... If you are not a gamer and need an MS environment then have a look at 2k3 or 2k8...
What I am confused about is why they compromised so much with Windows Vista. Windows Vista should have stripped all backwards compatibility out and removal of all the upsafe calls they marked off when they did the big code audit (those calls are listed on Microsofts website, and updated regularly with the alternative safe method suggested to use).
Do that and provide backwards compatibility with Windows XP through virtualisation. Ensure that all Microsoft applications are compatibility on day one with Windows Vista - and you'll find things would have gone a whole lot smoother.
As for the future, if they made this giant leap forward - it would have hurt initially but the difficult decisions would address the issues now so hat for the next atleast 2-3 releases it would be gradual evolution without the disruption. Its better to do one big disruption than having many small disruptions.
RE[2]: I can understand...
by stestagg on Tue 29th Jul 2008 12:04
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Member since:2006-06-03
Actually, the thing that puzzles me is why 2k3 (I haven't tried 2k8 yet, so maybe that one) isn't flying off the shelves
1. because of the cost.
2. because Microsoft don't want this to happen. I'm not going to suggest reasons why, but it seems that all of their latest 'free' software releases (2 of them being Live Writer and Live Mesh beta, but there are many more) actively refuse to install on server OSs. This is an obvious attempt to persuade the early-adopters not to switch to server OSs.
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...why MS need us to adopt Vista (well, one of the reasons)...
Vista has a lot of new tech under the hood that would make development of new products easier for them. There is a newer driver model, newer gfx libraries and so on...
This is the same for Apple with Leopard. If most of the user base is on Leopard, then iLife stuff can use Core Animation for instance, but if a lot of users are holding back then they may not be able too.
Actually, the thing that puzzles me is why 2k3 (I haven't tried 2k8 yet, so maybe that one) isn't flying off the shelves. I have to run 2k3, XP and Vista at work and would choose 2k3 for it's size and speed any day over the others, XP feels old and slow in comparison, Vista feels new and old - lol... If you are not a gamer and need an MS environment then have a look at 2k3 or 2k8...