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Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista
PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and [CEO] Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. 'As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,' he said... 'The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,' he said. 'Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year.' Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. "We have very good internal controller technology... That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment.'"
Impressive; Vista can slow down a company's product development, not just the computers it's running on!
"We did not fully understand the limitations of the Vista environment" - Neither did anybody else, including Microsoft... no one can be told how limited Vista is - you have to suffer it for yourself.
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
When I read this, a certain quote comes to mind:
"The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool." -Unknown
So perhaps on some plane of reality we might be grateful to the good people at Microsoft for forcing SSD makers to make improvements they might not otherwise have made?
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
I heard that Vista causes cancer, kicks puppies, and is responsible for global warming.
I swear at XP myself.
I've run Vista Home Premium on an Asus Eee PC (with 4GB SSD) and it runs just fine. And quick. I have no idea what they are complaining about.
Vista killed my father, and raped my mother!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
... I did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment."
Be warned, it only works once.
Unless she is also using Vista, but then dinner will be late anyway.
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Take a guess why.
It hung up a few hours ago and no one has rebooted yet ?
So basically, Vista murders your disks? Steve Ballmer should be worried. Didn't they put Hans Reiser in jail for something like this?
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
You forgot to run swapon?
What about OS X? And what is this "Vista" thing everyone is referring to?
Vista turned me into a NEWT!
a newt? but you got better?
It's okay. When Duke Nukem Forever is released, it'll cure all the cancers caused by Vista, or so I've heard.
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"I have downloaded hundreds and hundreds of records, why would I care if somebody downloads ours?" Robin Pecknold
I heard that Vista causes cancer, kicks puppies, and is responsible for global warming.
So, it's not actually as bad as they say it is?
... and then they built the supercollider.
"This [OS] is a problem" -River Tam
In Vista Ultimate Signature Edition you get to choose the kitten.
You mean "This [OS] is problematic."
And which parallel universe did you crawl out of?
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to be uninstalled.
That XP sucked when it was released and gradually improved into something useable?
Well, half of that statement is true...
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Your last claim is incorrect. Vista creates pirates, which as we all know reduce global warming.
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Yeah, after he got his hands on SP1.
I will bend like a reed in the wind.
According to microsoft, germany is vistaland. As if they haven't done enough damage some decades ago...
"Die endgueltige Teilung Deutschlands - das ist unser Auftrag." - Chlodwig Poth
Um, my dog runs pretty fast.
Rule of Slashdot #0: You and people like you are not representative of the larger population. - A.C.
Yes, but you can also buy "kitten credits" to offset executed kittens.
/LabMonkey09
"Overrated". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Take those moderators and have them sacked. And those folks responsible for the credits, too.
I drank what? -- Socrates
What's so impressive about his ID number?
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
That's why I never use my Vista desktop. If I touch it, I have to reboot it.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
RMS never told you what happened to your father. Vista is your father.
OK, I'll bite...
This is yet another example of Microsoft's heroic efforts to push the envelope of software and hardware design. After all, without the great demands that Windows, the most advanced OS on the planet and pinnacle of Human technological achievement, places on hardware, we'd all still be using Sinclair Spectrums. Or worse, the Apple Mac.
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