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Every Vista Computer Gets Its Own Domain Name
c_forq writes, "According to APC magazine, every new Windows Vista computer will be given its own domain name to access files remotely. There is a catch though: to use it one must be using IPv6. Is the push for Vista also going to be the push finally to switch everything from IPv4 to IPv6?" Microsoft, meanwhile, is trying to convince businesses to adopt both Vista and Office 2007 at once. An analyst is quoted: 'In all likelihood, enterprises will tie deployment of both Vista and Office 2007 with a hardware upgrade cycle.' His reasoning is that it will be easier for companies to handle one disruption to IT systems than two. Or three.
I am so sick of Microsoft's operating systems and pointless OFFICE upgrades forcing corporate america's hands into wasting money on software and hardware resulting in firing REAL EMPLOYEES that actually give value to the business. Ever since Windows 2000 and Office 97 I haven't seen any significant reason for anyone to upgrade the operating system or office. The only reason people upgrade office is because microsoft gets away with making the new versions of their office documents backwards incompatible. This upgrade is "easy" for corporate america which then affects personal and small business because they can't open excel or word documents from the "big boys" making them have to spend the $350 to upgrade.
As far as anything beyond Windows 2000, there is little to no reason for any corporation to upgrade from windows 98se or Windows 2000 OTHER THAN virus and security patch support from microsoft and other third parties. Microsoft has not felt any squeeze ever since being declaired a 'MONOPOLY'. One of the results of this verdict should be that they should have to maintain SECURITY PATCHES for previous versions of windows and make their FORWARD PRODUCTS of office backwards compatible BY DEFAULT not by choice.
Please, make the maddness stop! Do not upgrade your hardware just to hand over more money to microsoft.
Look into Macs, Look into Linux, anything than giving more money to microsoft. All they do with their money is grow and intrude and ruin more markets. (ie. Zune, XBox 360)
You think microsoft has really "innovated and expanded" the markets they have intruded? HECK NO!
Look at the current game console market. Ever since the XBOX now there are hardly any "exclusive console" titles, everyone makes games that are genericly engineered for ALL the consoles. They don't spend the time focusing releases on a single console any more. Game developers don't want to limit their customer base so they make their game's graphics and controls generic to port to all consoles. In the end this affects the consumers poorly because the games are all kinda "BLAH". Sure, microsot has helped bring some great first person shooters (halo) to the world, BUT that game was already being developed for the PS2 PRIOR to Microsoft purchasing the title and making them reengineer the game instead of finish it up as good as it was going to be. Halo would have been BETTER if microsoft wasn't in the picture. imagine that.