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Vista SP1 Release Candidate Available
Microsoft has made available the release candidate for Vista SP1, after a limited beta begun last September. Informationweek points out white papers telling business users that if they were waiting for SP1 to solve application compatibility issues, they needn't bother waiting: SP1 won't solve them, and in fact might cause applications to break that were running under Vista. Techworld outlines the hoops users will have to jump through to get SP1 installed.
" Informationweek advices business users ".
How badly informed is this magazine? The Fortune 500 companies (probably the fortune 5,000,000 companies) wont touch Vista with a bargepole. They have spent millions of man hours writing testing and deploying thousands of apps Windows XP.
Does Information week think they are going to risk this investment by deploying evferything on an untested operating System after upgrading/replacing millions of working XP PCs with "Vista unready" hardware.
Windows NT was a common site on business desktops until about 2005 a full five years after Win2K became available and three years after XP was released. This comparitively rapid deployement of XP only happened because it was largely a rebranding of NT plus some eye candy. Vista is drasticly different from XP and no sensible IT department will touch it until at least SP2 is available and the current set of desktop hardware needs replacing anyway.
Old COBOL programmers never die. They just code in C.
Um, this may shock you, but there are people that don't feel like they're being abused my MS at all. I'm actually liking their newest products quite a bit; that includes Vista, VS 2005/8, Office 2007 and server 2003, MS Money.
And if you dont wait exactly 1hr, what happens? Does it explode in a gigantic muchroom cloud? I can see a lot of people now waiting with a Chronograph patiently till one hour has gone by so they can install Vista SP1.
Will microsuck ever learn?
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(Okay.. first I must say, I got this 0 points simply because I made a honest criticize on linux few weeks back right here and moderators went angry with me, okay fine.. this is linux territory)
Just my 2 cents...
Windows is the most used OS on the planet. No arguments. And its been a long time with different incarnations. Now the new incarnation have to live up to the expectation of backward compatibility.
Yes.. once intel tried giving up x86 and totally going with itanium.. it ended up as a real white elephant that they don't about it anymore. So now they invest billions on improving it and making it much better.
Same story with C language... there are people criticise it as well.. but still.. its a language which can do many miracles in programming world. That's why still it is the holy grail of programming (maybe I am exaggerating too much). That's why they are trying to bring in multti-threading as well.
So.. windows may lose some market share (largely.. thanks to the Intel powered Macs). But still it will be the ultimate OS we gonna see for another long time. PRetty much all the applications written to it.
Also do appreciate the fact that M$ do sweat alot in making their product better. If we go and place our selves in M$ shoes, non of us gonna complain about Windows. Pretty much any real-time OS is pretty tricky to program with all the concerns (DRM, Security, multi users etc.)
And lastly... many here praise on Linux. Yeah its free and it has some legacy from UNIX (the holygrail of modern OS). But for the well built enterprise one (which I use in large PABX servers).. still not for free!
Your an idiot. The majority of people like and use windows with no problems. You mac guys are the minority, you microsoft haters are the minority. Please guys take your load of BS about vista and MS and take it elsewhere. Noone cares about your opinion. The majority of complainers post their complaints, so thats why u think the majority of us hate vista. Go back 6 years ago. "Stick with 98SE/2000, XP sucks" then it was XP rules, then it was XP SP2 Blows ass, now its SP2 kicks ass. I think the majority of haters have no life and go spreading bullshit around tech sites because they got nothing better to do, but you guys forgot one thing. Nobody gives a shit about your false opinion, because i have been using vista for 3 months, havent had a problem, all my software works. I bet the majority of haters haven't even tried vista and just been throwing around someone else's bullshit.
You are talking about completely different operating systems, nueb. I know you aren't old enough to know the difference between Windows 3.1 and Windows NT4, but they were substantial. Same with the difference between Windows 4 and Windows 2000 (Win5.0), or WinXP (Win6.0).
But hey, let's not let that deter you from your FUD-spewing. I'm sure you have all kinds of reasons why Apple charges $150 for a point-release service pack.
As for your Debian comment... there's a good reason why Teh Lunix is free. It's because their only alternative is to actually PAY people to use it. Sorry Lunix d00d, but nobody wants Teh Lunix. I hate to be the one to break it to you... well, no I don't, but the truth is that if Teh Lunix were technically superior, it would have beaten Windows by now. As it stands... Teh Lunix's install base can't even exceed the install base of Windows 2000, and only barely beats Windows 98 (!!!).
I've found teh FOSSie's meme that somehow "Vista is a failure" to be kind of strange: Vista's install base exceeded both Teh Lunix and Teh OSX's install bases, combined, in the first week it was available for public release. So if Vista is a failure... what does that make Teh Lunix, or Teh OSX?