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.

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Re:How to advocate free software

[WilliamSChips]

As a representative of the Linux community, participate in mailing list and newsgroup discussions in a professional manner. Refrain from name-calling and use of vulgar language. Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer. Your words will either enhance or degrade the image the reader has of the Linux community.

Fuck you and fuck Linus Torvalds as CEO. Linus is just the wrong man in the right place.

Avoid hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims at all costs. It's unprofessional and will result in unproductive discussions.

Slashdot? Professional? Productive? That's like claiming that the Bush Administration is honest.

A thoughtful, well-reasoned response to a posting will not only provide insight for your readers, but will also increase their respect for your knowledge and abilities.

The first good piece of advice here, and it's fucking obvious

Always remember that if you insult or are disrespectful to someone, their negative experience may be shared with many others. If you do offend someone, please try to make amends.

Well, it obviously was shared with whoever runs the botnet you're posting from.

Focus on what Linux has to offer. There is no need to bash the competition. Linux is a good, solid product that stands on its own.

Sorry, I'm going to bash M$ every chance I get. It's not enough that good wins. The fight for quality in software requires the ultimate death of Micro$oft. It may be hard to believe but it is true.

Respect the use of other operating systems. While Linux is a wonderful platform, it does not meet everyone's needs.

I'm not going to respect the single greatest roadblock in the highway of quality in the developed world. If Micro$oft meets your needs, reconsider your needs.

Refer to another product by its proper name. There's nothing to be gained by attempting to ridicule a company or its products by using "creative spelling". If we expect respect for Linux, we must respect other products.

Do you really think Ballmer is going to ever give Linux respect? Requesting Slashdot not use M$ is like requesting Ballmer to kiss an iPod. This is not a forum where Linux bigwigs reasonably communicate with Microsoft representatives. This is CmdrTaco's fucking playground, and if you do not play by his rules he has every right to kick you out. If you don't like it you leave and go to Digg which is supposed to be "user-focused" or to Micro$oft.com where you can meet with people who love M$ as much as you do. This is mostly populated by the Linux community, and I'm going to talk like there's nobody else around. If you don't like it, go back to your botnets.

Give credit where credit is due. Linux is just the kernel. Without the efforts of people involved with the GNU project , MIT, Berkeley and others too numerous to mention, the Linux kernel would not be very useful to most people.

This has no place in this list. Anybody who even cares about who made what in the kernel, already knows. Again, another piece of useless advice.

Don't insist that Linux is the only answer for a particular application. Just as the Linux community cherishes the freedom that Linux provides them, Linux only solutions would deprive others of their freedom.

Sorry, but software developers only providing software for Windoze is the very enemy of quality in software and it must be ridiculed and stopped.

There will be cases where Linux is not the answer. Be the first to recognize this and offer another solution.

This just sounds like a repeat of the last item.

I'm not sure how much of that I believe, but either way, lists like that piss me off. Anybody who doesn't al