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Olympic Committee Chooses XP Over Vista
Vinit writes "The popularity of Windows XP is still making things difficult for Vista. Now Vista has again suffered a major setback, with Lenovo (Olympic 2008' official sponsor) installing XP on it's machines to run the Olympic Games' vital PC-related tasks. Vista will only be used in internet lounges set up for athletes to use during the games."
'fraid not.
If you look at old maps and the like you can see the origin of the possessive form of nouns.
For example, off the South East coast of Ireland is an area called St George's Channel (named presumably by the English after their lightweight pseudo-saint) - but if you look at older maps you will see it marked as 'St George his Channel' meaning the channel of Saint George. Shorten that and you end up with St George's Channel.
Likewise Bob his computer. The dog its bone etc. Obviously there's a problem with Eve - but I presume this is because she wouldn't have been entitled to own anything at the time this ended up in the language.
So I think the GP is correct - though I'm sure some grammar super-Nazi will pull me up on this.
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Vista certainly improves on a few things. Most notably (for me), is the way the GUI is handled internally. OTOH, with these nice improvements also comes a lot of other crap that I (and many others) explicitely DON'T want. As it stands, XP can be improved upon (i.e. anything that OSX, Linux, etc. currently does better than XP), but Vista isn't the answer to that. Vista would have a better chance at adoption if Microsoft's marketing department didn't have a say over what goes in technically.
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I wonder how much of the decision has to do with some practical issues with Vista "features." If they are hooking up equipment like timers and cameras, then the current state of Vista drivers could be a huge issue. I am definitely not a Microsoft basher, but anyone who views the situation objectively can see that there are issues of media content on Vista. A lot of Olympic workers probably move around media files. Have you ever tried to move around media files in Vista? It takes forever because of the DRM. And if they want to play their video out to a live video feed they may have to degrade its quality unless they are doing output that is certified as having proper DRM. In my opinion MS's biggest mistake in Vista was treating the recording industry as their best buddies and treating their customers as the enemy. They have managed to make Vista useless for media production or management.