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Will Businesses Skip Windows Vista Altogether?

Corporate Americaâ(TM)s rejection of Vista

Microsoft may allow businesses to skip Vista, go direct from XP to Windows 7

Businesses could skip Vista for Windows 7

http://vista.blorge.com/2008/04/19/benchmarks-fail-to-explain-why-vista-falters-and-server-2008-succeeds/

Years later, Xbox is pretty much the center of the console market.

No it ain't, unless you're defining that market as the subset of the real console market focused on games that could as easily by played on a PC. Probably the real center of the market (in unit sales) is the Nintendo Wii with its innovative controller. (Just checked online; February '08 sales for Wii were 432,000 vs Xbox 360's 254,600).

The games available for the Wii are attracting people that would never consider your traditional console games (especially not first-person shooters). There was something in the newspaper recently about bowling leagues of all things built up around the Wii's virtual bowling game, made up of the kind of AARP crowd that Xbox doesn't cater to.

I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Reminds me of a commercial, but maybe it should be sung as:

"I am STUCK on BRAND-AID cuz LOONY's STUCK on ME..."

Seems like vista's the Chevy Nova of operating systems versions. Remember the Nova being sold in Spain? It didn't sell well or at all because over there (an anywhere in Espa~nol) "novas" means "doesn't go/won't go" basically, "unreliable".

Rebrand Vista to Novas.

But, looking at reversing things, I "Googled" "atsiv", and found:

http://vista.blorge.com/2007/07/30/symantec-free-utility-tool-by-passes-vista-kernel-defenses/

http://www.linchpinlabs.com/index.htm

There are several VERY notable games that look far better under DirectX 10. Crysis, Bioshock, Lost Planet

According to wikipedia, that's been deprecated and replaced by Live since 2004. I personally don't know of any software that uses it.

And it may not even be the blog the original poster submitted. I submitted a story on MySpace getting false positives on sex-offender screening of their users. I linked to the blog where I'd found out about it when I submitted it (The Internet Patrol). When ScuttleMonkey posted the story to the front page, I still got credit for the submission, but some other blog was linked.

Now, the date on the other blog post was the day before my source, so it might have been that there were many submissions and my summary of the story was judged the best, but ScuttleMonkey judged the other blog the best/earliest example of the story, thus changing my TFA link. Or it might be that ScuttleMonkey changed the link for more nefarious reasons.

1. The people who have been waiting for Vista with baited breath, and would never switch to OS X. Who may not be 100% happy with Vista but will say it will get better with time and is still better in some ways than XP.
2. The people who are on the fence. Long time window users who are upset with Vista. Who will simply switch to XP who you really couldn't get to switch to OS X if you paid them. I am guessing business users make up a large group of these people.
3. The third and final group is a hodgepodge. People who just use the OS that comes with the computer, and are getting more and more fed up with Vista. In this case, the time would actually help Apple. Those people who are at wits end with Vista, demanding XP. Would potentially love nothing more than to jump ship completely. Given people's general uncomfortableness with technology in general. Jumping ships to a new platform is not without great hesitation, regardless of their angst at MS. I think this is why we see market share of Linux increasing, albeit slowly.

What do you think? I know it is an oversimplification.

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/10/20/realnetworks-releases-realplayer-fix-for-zero-day-activex-flaw/

Seen in the firehose.

They've been trialling multicasting over the past year or two with several ISPs so the serving is offloaded to the ISPs local infrastructure. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/18/2257257 for info on plans to extend it. Talking of infrastructure, there are worries from a lot of ISPs that the iPlayer will bring their networks to a grinding halt http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/08/13/uk-isps-to-limit-access-to-bbcs-iplayer-streaming-content/ with plans to charge for usage.

Your arguments are mostly valid, but you seem to be struggling with something- It's not my job to *prove* that Vista was everything promised. On the contrary, it's the job of the consumers in question to prove that Vista was less-than-promised, if they want to deem it "faulty" and that they were "defrauded."

Again, you're taking my argument out of context. I never claimed to know what was promised, require you to know what was promised (although I'd expect you to know for your own sake given how you now own Vista), or tried to specifically claim that the people in question were defrauded (although my example might lead claim that some people were defrauded). By all means, yes, there should be proof of fault if demands are made with expectation of resolution. But, the argument at hand was more generic, specifically to address the points you raised/tried to raise.

My point is that they haven't.

Granted. They haven't specifically drawn out the logic, which one can fault them for. Instead, it's assumed that those at Microsoft have the mental power and will of mind to come to the conclusion the evidence offers.

There's no proof, beyond your lacking* sound driver argument that Vista has failed to deliver on any premise.

Vista is not yet good as XP replacement, says Dutchs Consumers Union That's a previous entry. And in it, it sounds like they gathered proof.

*We can all agree that it's silly to expect any operating system to come with drivers for all hardware configurations by default. Or were you expecting SPARC support in Vista, too?

I think that's a vapid example. Two better ones are (a) buying a new machine with Vista were the sound card isn't supported or (b) upgrading an XP machine where the sound card works to Vista where the sound card doesn't work. Now, the former is in many ways more an OEM problem. However, MS issuing Vista compatability certification before Vista was even released has pushed people into category (b). And category (b) people have a lot more reasonable expectation that hardware will work.

Btw, before CP/M, most hardware came from the OS vendor, to the point that it was reasonable to expect all drivers to come with the OS. Most Apple hardware, AFAIK, has necessary drivers with the OS. The issue, I guess, comes down less to whether all configurations are supported and more on whether any common or many uncommon configurations are not supported. Of course, hardware for Windows tends to be lots of uncommon configurations; but, given that's well known, it'd seem important to inform consumers if you knew you were scrapping support for a lot of drivers/hardware.

*shrug*

I think the poster was referring to the iGasm.

And you got all this unsubstantiated speculation from where, exactly?

Well, since you asked, Microsoft's ME II, better known as Vista, is causing unhappy faces everywhere I go. It isn't just that people don't want to use it, or that it's insecure and buggy or that the very word vista has "failure" attached to it. It isn't that Vista isn't even compatible with Microsoft's own SQL Server.

Most of the people that I know only care that it's not possible to deploy Vista with industry standard tools. A rollback is likely, and there are substantial unresolved issues preventing deployment.

Although I'm aware you don't appreciate twitter's attention to these matters, I do. I do appreciate twitter's attention to these things quite a lot.

Thanks, twitter.

Intel's senior counsel has responded to the EC's preliminary finding by saying that the Intel's actions in Europe actually benefit consumers. http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/07/27/in tel-were-not-abusing-our-market-position-in-europe / But then, of course, they would say that.

Certainly wasn't an increase in memory, i have used 2gig for a long time now. I did install Vista itself to a new SATA drive, but the games still ran from the same IDE drive. Certainly the swap file itself would have been faster, and I won't discount the hardware as having an effect, it could possibly be also because a new install of an Operating System(Windows/Linux/OSX) is usually faster due to less clutter. Unfortunately i didn't do extensive benchmarks to determine the root cause of the increase. I think it's probably a combination of things, including the new drive, and Vista's more (well i'm assuming)efficient caching drive/memory practices.

Actually now that i think about i did have a very negative experience with the ready-boost functionality. It's supposed to use your usb drive as extra memory. Whenever it's turned on iTunes will play all videos with a huge amount of stutter until you turn it off again. It's been widely reported http://vista.blorge.com/2007/04/16/vista-itunes-an d-readyboost-do-not-play-well/ but i have 2gig so i don't really need it anyway.

This story has YouTube's reponse to that. YouTube originally said they'd wanted their users to be motivated by passion for sharing their videos -- and not for money. Now they're selectively offering the money as a way to "incubate" those projects that they think have potential.

Curses, I thought choosing Extens would put that URL in there right..

http://gamer.blorge.com/2007/05/17/34-new-ps3-game s-sony-strikes-back/>Gamer.Blorge.com

There's more of an actual list, although still only showing about half of the games, over at 3 -games-sony-strikes-back/>Gamer.Blorge.com</a> But even then of those (which I assume are the best ones in order to get mentioned) only about 3 are exclusives. The others are either going to be available on many platforms, or just sequels to franchises... A good summary was over on Fark somewhere..

SingStar Another franchise entry
Heavenly Sword
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Movie tie-in
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Movie tie-in
Madden NFL 08 Another franchise entry
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas Another franchise entry
Grand Theft Auto IV Another franchise entry
Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Another franchise entry
Ninja Gaiden Sigma Another franchise entry
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent Another franchise entry
The Bigs Not exclusive, seems like a lame faux sports title.
NCAA Football 2008 Another franchise entry
Timeshift PS3 Not exclusive
Assassin's Creed Not exclusive
The Darkness Not exclusive
Lair
All Pro Football 2K8 Another franchise entry (Used to be the ESPN NFL line)

You have basically 3 exclusives.. yay.

Yes, that's it" "No lawsuits" ... according to senior Microsoft Executives.

In addition there is a retort by Linus, here http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=199600443

and a scathing reply by OIN here, http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press_release. php

and the ever insightful replies on Groklaw here: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200705151 25107293

It seems that this was again a case of Microsoft FUD and hot air. For which we can all be mighty gratefull I should think.

Someone beat him to this "news". Hell, it was even discussed on Slashdot before. You can read the *first* article about this here.

Although the article links to another about an Australian telco executive attacking the iPhone that's quite entertaining.

Dell has responded to accusations of censorship. Apparently the idea wasn't deleted, it was simply "merged", which means it's all OK (NOT!).

Dell Makes Excuses for Backing Off Linux

Dell needs a crash course in economics. Supply does not push demand, it's the other way around. No matter what Steve Ballmer says or no matter how good a deal you will get on OEM licenses is you comply with the company's wishes. Comply with the DOJ and give everybody a fair shake Dell. Otherwise you can close the factories now and go home. This isn't 1995 anymore. [sic]

"Dell may have truly done themselves more harm than good by promising Linux and then with-holding [sic] it: it will be interesting to see how they proceed with this delicate situation."

Some preliminary tests of scramjets have been done. Very preliminary. Not by these guys.

Pish-posh! Just look at their mockup: http://www.blorge.com/images/Hypersonicspaceplanes promise2hourflights_E607/hypersonic4.gif They clearly know what they're doing.