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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
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?
Vista turned me into a NEWT!
a newt? but you got better?
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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.
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.
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.
Um, my dog runs pretty fast.
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What's so impressive about his ID number?
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
RMS never told you what happened to your father. Vista is your father.