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Microsoft Hoping for Vista in January
WebHostingGuy writes "Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January. He is also hopeful that the next version of Office will ship in December. The holdup, he says, is due to constant revisions due to beta tester feedback." From the article: "'We've got to get this absolutely right,' Gates said. 'If the feedback from the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay it.' He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator. He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as Microsoft."
How's the Kool-aid taste?
Hell, I've got even neater features on Windows now, such as the fact that I can go to the store, buy a program, put it in my computer, and it will WORK! (mmm, a functional OS...). Let's see you try that under Linux or OSX.
Well that is very arguable, on two fronts. First, that Hurd has poor project management. Second that Linux is "relatively" complete. I spent 3 days with my Linux sys admin tryinng to get my digital camera working with my Gentoo box. He said "sure, use Linux, every camera works on it." We never succeeded. (It was an Olympus C3030.)
So while it is said often, the Linux driver situation is a mess.
What about right now? My co-workers are all running Vista on their Intel 64-bit desktops with the incredible Aero enhancements. I have to say that this is probably the best Windows EVAR. It even gives Mac OS X a run for it's money but that might be going too far. Fortunately, I use Enlightenment on 64-bit Gentoo so I've been running with all these features for the past three years. But, it's nice to know that the rest of the world is catching on to what's possible.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Really? What about the tranclucent menus and their thing that works like the retarded cousin of Mac OS X Dashboard? Those are leaps beyond Windows XP. There's also the completely new Alt-Tab switching with thumbnails of the applications and the ability to turn windows on their side with labels on the windows. You can even make notes on the back of windows. That's not different from 2K or XP? Really?
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Good luck running a business with freebie software! I hope the IRS doesn't mind that you keep your books in a spreadsheet, because that's all there is on Ubuntu!