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Forbes Says Vista Not People Ready

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-is-it-ready-for dept.

Diomedes01 writes "Daniel Lyons has an opinion piece up on Forbes.com about a recent press conference held by Microsoft, and the results are anything but flattering."

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  1. Re:Rejection by Cyphertube · · Score: 4, Informative

    Of course, if things are half as complex as this article makes it sound, well, I think there will be the issue of training budgets for companies.

    If the new Office/Vista interfaces are too different from the current Windows setup, the training budget will be cheaper to go to a Linux desktop (GNOME or KDE) and use OpenOffice.org. Never mind the license fees to upgrade being saved.

    This has become typical of Microsoft. While SQL has gotten better, and they're getting better with Visual Studio and the new version of IE, so many other things are broken. I can't speak for BizTalk 2006, but 2004 has struck me as a huge waste of cash.

    I've been trying to justify using MS products for quite some time (aside from the fact that .NET programmers are cheap). If the user interface is more complex for most of our users, then there will be little to no reason to stick with it.

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    Linux - because it doesn't leave that Steve Ballmer aftertaste.
  2. Re:My Clinically Inept Siblings by bonius_rex · · Score: 5, Informative
    I doubt that he uses CAD software to design the next T-shirt.

    I sysadmin for a company that does some fashion design. We do indeed use a specialized CAD type program for this. It's output is bascally a blueprint of the garment to give to the manufacturers.

    This software is hella expensive.