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Microsoft Vista Info Leaked
slashnutt writes to tell us Yahoo News is reporting that Microsoft accidentally released information about Windows Vista earlier than originally planned. From the article: "Microsoft disclosed information about a plan to release eight different editions of the new operating system on a company help page that was under development. The company has not made any official statements about the different versions of Windows Vista it plans to offer. The company has since taken down the Web site and declined to confirm the information and said it will offer more details about the Vista launch, targeted for the second half of 2006, in the coming weeks. Microsoft spokesman said in a statement 'This page has since been removed as it was posted prematurely and was for testing purposes only.'"
What?
M$ screwed up? Not possible.
Maybe they were just desperate for some media hype, God knows they aren't getting much of it.
Why'd they release anything?
FP
There's only 2 current versions of Linux: 2.6 and 2.4 . And you can run any software on top of those that you choose, no one will dictate your use.
fedora, ubuntu, suse, debian, rhel, slackware.... the list goes on and on. There are many things to complain about with Microsoft software, but let's not be hypocritical.
All of them except slackware running Kernel 2.6 - which is the fully supported kernel of choice ATM, the only "version" if you will. Just because each one has a different pretty little theme doesn't mean that it's a different version.
She then heads home and proceeds to configure her new computer, but to her absolute dismay, she finds that she's unable to do everything that she was previously able to do (like burn CD's, or use DirectX applications) on her old Windowsw XP box. She calls MS support who gingerly inform her that "Oh, that functionality is only included in Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, which you can have for the low low price of $300". Sally has no choice but to pay for another copy of Windows
Or she can take the $400 she spent on the new PC and the $300 Microsoft wants for Windows Vista Ultimate Edition and just buy a fully loaded Mac Mini, thereby saving her the yearly AV subscription costs, the time running spyware scans, ect.
I bet MS really needs all this free promotion Slashdot always gives them
Yes, it is. Consider even the most *basic* and *superficial* comparisons:
* Is anyone looking for the functionality of Windows XP, going to find anything even remotely close with Linux on a 386 ? No.
* Is anyone looking at a PC capable of running Windows XP going to be satisfied with the performance of a 386 ? No.
* Is anyone for whom Linux on a 386 *is* a suitable fit to their requirements, going to even _consider_ using XP for the same task ? No.
This is before we even get to the simple factual errors of your statement. Windows XP runs fine on 5 year old PCs, perhaps requiring a minor RAM upgrade. Very few contemporary Linux distributions will even boot on a 386 (*particularly* a typical 386 that has - being generous - 8 MB of RAM) without tweaking, let alone install and run.
No rational person would try and compare Linux running on a 386 to anything running Windows XP (and vice versa). The target markets, possible uses and probable users are so completely different, that it's like comparing a B-double to a motorised skateboard, then stating the B-double sucks because it uses more fuel.
Your comment, however, has no value. There is no information or relevant opinion. Your statement attacks me directly despite the fact that you do not know anything about me. The wording is clumsy. The sentence is grammatically incorrect. You use a word that does not exist and one that is ambiguous. There is a missing word. You also make two absurd statements. You have created a piece of putrid mumbling, dense with stupidity, void of meaning and not worthy of a six year old reader.
This would be more entertaining if it didn't read like you copied it from a book. The fact that most of it's inaccurate, if not outright incorrect, doesn't help.
You, sir, are flamebait and I a ball of hydrogen plasma.
You're a dickhead trolling for bites with FUD, a ridiculous comparison, a chip on your shoulder about Microsoft you almost certainly have no reason to bear and a massively overestimated, self-administered measure of your own cleverness. In other words, you fit the Slashdot stereotype to a 'T'.