Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Jan 2006 12:45 UTC
"Microsoft set out to adopt a formal and rigid support lifecycle in 2002, back at a time when most analysts were expecting to see Windows Vista within a couple of years. My own point of view was that this lifecycle business had a lot to do with Microsoft's then-new volume licensing scheme, which among other things is oriented towards selling software subscriptions. If you're buying a subscription for software, you can see how lifecycle plans become important. However, delays in Windows Vista coupled with a questionable approach to 'consumer' products means that 2007 will carry a few surprises unless policy changes are made at Redmond."
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2005-06-29
"A lot of the hardware sold with XP-home today have less powerful specs. Especially with respect to memory. You still see cheap laptops with 256M RAM and upgrading them is often relatively expensive."
I second that, I worked all summer to get a Laptop and the most I could afford after that only had 256 Mb of ram because over here the things are still expensive. I would have gotten a ram upgrade, but I've since lost my job and decided not to get another one until I finished school.
My laptop doesn't run XP as fast as I'd like, nevermind Vista. maybe my desktop machine with more ram spoiled me, but XP just doesn't run nicely with only 256 Mb of ram. When XP reaches the end of it's lifecycle I'm going to give Linux another try on the laptop to see if the hardware support has improved enough to cover the last few unsupported pieces of hardware the machine has. I'm already very comfortable with Linux and know for a fact that my laptop will run GNU/Linux + KDE at least as fast as XP, so no need for me to get Vista.