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Challenges To Microsoft For 2006

Posted by Zonk on from the step-up-to-the-plate dept.

TekkenLaw writes "Directions on Microsoft, a site which claims to be 'the only independent organization in the world devoted exclusively to tracking Microsoft', has published a list of 10 challenges for 2006 for Microsoft as a company. Top strategic issues in all areas of operation from OS to gaming are covered." From the article: "Windows Vista could offer large organizations improvements in software development, security, reliability, systems management, and user interface. However, public demonstrations have been full of cool graphics effects and consumer features that probably turn off more IT staff than they attract, and sales of Windows upgrade rights to corporations have been disappointing. In 2006, Microsoft has to settle on a feature set for Vista that appeals to enterprises, explain clearly what that feature set is, and reveal what PC hardware and other infrastructure corporations require to reap the benefits." Actually presented in a fairly respectful way, it's interesting to see the overall picture we've reported on for the past year condensed down into one page.

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  1. First post for Inteligent Design by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. What Vista Needs by jimktrains · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What I love about Mac and *nix is that it comes with so much installed right off (note: have not tried the new shell for vista, whatever it's name is). I'm not talkign about office or even GUI apps, but things like tar, gzip (granted windows has native zip support, so I guess that evens out), gcc (OMG I hate not having a compiler on PC's, sure there are free ones, but I can't (read: not alloud) intall stuff at work). There are things that ppl don't think about like who, uptime, kill, cat (isn't there a DOS equiv to cat...?), cmdln find, cmdln grep, w, cal, bc, lynx, ssh (client AND server), apache (or IIS on Windows, just something by default), mail, sendmail, and perl. That's only what I can think off of the top of my head....

    And before you say that's too much to have at once, all of those and more are on *nix and mac systems by default and they run pretty snappy.

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    "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - S. G. Colette
    1. Re:What Vista Needs by jimktrains · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Why was I modded overrated? Those are things I use everyday and sorly miss whenever I have to use windows. i have no gripe with Windows, jsut think that some things coudl be added to make it better....

      What's overrated suppose to mean anyway?

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      "You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - S. G. Colette
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