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Corporate America Not Ready For Vista
thefickler writes to point out a TechBlorge article about a study indicating how few corporate computers now deployed are capable of running Windows Vista. The article says that the study, by Softchoice, will be released next week. The study found that 50% of the PCs inventoried (from a sample of 112,000 from 472 organizations) are below Vista's basic system requirements. Roughly half of those PCs will need to be replaced outright to run Vista. 94% of corporate PCs are not ready for Vista Premium Edition. The article notes that the need to upgrade hardware "could... mean that organizations will hold off upgrading to Windows Vista until their next hardware refresh," as some analysts have been saying for a while now.
That's an interesting view of reality you have there. You believe Microsoft invented the hardware restrictions that the MPAA and RIAA are trying to force down our throats? Sounds to me like you've missed your mark completely. Microsoft is a software company and if they want to play encrypted content it is good business for them to support it. There are no restrictions whatsoever on non-encrypted content so I still don't see what your gripe is.
Backwards compatibility is not a feature, if you're going to complain about it then let's have a discussion about computers unable to run SUSE 10.1. Why can't I run it on my 386? or my 486? Why oh why did they remove that feature they are evil. Get over it, Microsoft saw that newer machines were largely going to waste with CPU usage below even 1% so they decided that they could utilize more of it and make the user experience more enjoyable. Their level of success is up for debate but calling backwards compatibility a feature is just not right. Sure it could play into your decision process to buy or not but it's not a feature of the product. I can buy my nice new THX speakers and they will sound great, oh, now they are 30% off? That feature puts it over the top for me, I'll buy em!