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Vista the End of An Era?

Posted by Zonk on from the dinosaurs-die-out dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Times Online has an article about the uncertain future of Windows. Even Microsoft, it seems is admitting that Vista will be the last OS of its kind. With the push towards a constant presence on the internet, and the churn that entails, the company has admitted that even with a two year delay 'it is not really ready'." From the article: "Security experts are acknowledging that Vista is the most secure of Windows to date. However, 'The bad guys will always target the most popular systems,' Mikko Hypponen, of F-Secure, the security group, said. 'Vista's vulnerability to phishing attacks, hackers, viruses and other malicious software will increase quickly.' But the current fear is that the Internet will kill Windows, with Google being Public Enemy No. 1: 'Microsoft is way behind Google when it comes to the internet,' Rupert Godwins, the technology editor at ZDNet, the industry website, said. 'Building Vista, Microsoft is still doing things the old way at the same time as it undergoes a big shift to catch up.'"

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  1. Its only an end of and era... by CrackedButter · · Score: 4, Funny

    when we use somebody else's face for the BillyBorg Slashdot Icon.

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    Jonathanjk.com
    1. Re:Its only an end of and era... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Steve's Chair?

  2. $150 per line of code? by SurturZ · · Score: 5, Funny
    From TFA:
    Vista's 50 million lines of code have cost an estimated $7.5 billion to assemble.


    That's $150 per line of code! I reckon the Microsoft devs have been playing WoW on company time :-)
    1. Re:$150 per line of code? by SurturZ · · Score: 2, Funny

      I want to be the guy that gets paid $150 to put in the right-braces lines. I could put in a few hundred in the morning, then go fishing for the rest of the day.

      I don't fish, but at $150 per character I could learn :-)

  3. Windows is dying by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Funny
    Even Microsoft, it seems is admitting that Vista will be the last OS of its kind.
    It is official; Microsoft now confirms: Windows is dying One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Windows community when Steve Ballmer confirmed that Windows' market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 100 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Microsoft survey which plainly states that Windows has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Windows is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Windows' future. The hand writing is on the wall: Windows faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Windows because Windows is dying. Things are looking very bad for Windows. As many of us are already aware, Windows continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Windows Vista is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Windows developer Bill Gates only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Windows is dying.
  4. Most secure windows to date by MrCreosote · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever I hear or read someone saying that the latest version of Windows is 'the most secure to date' I am reminded of the Groucho Marx line from 'Animal Crackers' - "Why, you're one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you".

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    MrCreosote Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump! "You're right! There isn't enough room to swing a cat in here!"
  5. Re:Not gonna happen by evilad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe not, but you can rest assured that somewhere in my head I'll be running DOS to play Full Throttle just one more time.

  6. I am not a Nazi! by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny

    No. 1: 'Microsoft is way behind Google when it comes to the internet,' Rupert Godwins, the technology editor at ZDNet,

    Godwinized before it even began. When God wins, humans lose.

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    ... and then they built the supercollider.
  7. Re:Not gonna happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You intend to live that long?

    I plan to live forever.

    So far, so good.

  8. Re:"Way behind"? by Cheapy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Google is on level 11 of the Internet. Microsoft is still stuck on the boss of level 3.

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    Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
  9. Re:Not gonna happen by thopkins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because it will have sound problems!

  10. Re:Not gonna happen by Schemat1c · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately I would be surprised if mankind doesn't kill themselves off in the next couple of hundred years. "I'm guessing you're one of those 'glass is half empty' kinda guys"
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    "Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
  11. Re:oh no, not again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    pedalling wears?

  12. Re:Not gonna happen by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny
    Do you know how many so called "computer engineers" are command-line retarded?!?!
    "Oh a keyboard, how quaint !"
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    May contain traces of nut.
    Made from the freshest electrons.
  13. Re:oh no, not again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can see it now: "Oh, you want to right-click? That's a $15 add-on feature.

    Hmm, doesn't Apple already have a patent on something like that? :)

    *dodges flames*