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The Hard Upgrade Path From XP To Vista To Win 7
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft executives have been telling the tech industry that if hardware supports Windows Vista, it will support Windows 7, but it now looks like that may not entirely be the case. According to CRN: 'But after a series of tests on older and newer hardware, a number of noteworthy issues emerged: Microsoft's statement that if hardware works with Windows Vista it will work with Windows 7 appears to be, at best, misleading; hardware that is older, but not near the end of most business life cycles, could be impossible to upgrade; and the addition of an extra step in the upgrade process does add complexity and more time not needed in previous upgrade cycles.' And here is CRN's overview of the difficulties Microsoft faces in asking enterprise users to walk this upgrade path: 'Across the XP-Vista-Windows 7 landscape, Microsoft has fostered an ecosystem that now holds out the prospect of a mind-numbing number of incompatible drivers, unsupported devices, unsupported applications, unsupported data, patches, updates, upgrades, 'known issues' and unknown issues. Sound familiar? That's what people used to say about Linux.'"
I still say Linux has unknown issues.
--I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield.-
So who wants to buy two $2100 email machines in 3 years? Sounds fun to me!
Then there's the third class: those that bitch about Windows not being backwards compatible while simultaneously saying how much backwards compatibility hobbles the OS. Those are the really fun people to talk to.
DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS!
Besides, I suspect that most corporate users will just update the whole PC and buy new ones with Windows 77 pre-installed. In the 10 years of my IT career I have seen one large company (Novartis) that actually did its own OS installations on a regular basis. The rest just used the computers with whatever OS was delivered at purchase, most of the time the unchanged vendor installation.
...how is your future era with common linux desktops or bug-free Windows relevant here? Also, how much disk space do you need to install Windows XP Service Pack 143?
Is XP really going to last long enough for Microsoft to make Windows 77? Wow.
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
Well that depends...
I mean if my sexbot is one of those 9,999 and my mouse is the 1 that isn't working, I don't think I'd give a damn about anything as long as my sexbot is working; I can buy another computer with a working mouse.
Then there are those that complain about Windows being a bitch.
Here's a challenge. Coat yourself in motor oil, and while you are shiny, try building a rocket-propelled, monkey-navigated Tandy 286 and see if you can get it to play COD4 against God and Jesus in a LAN party. Wait, you did it? Hm... Weird.
I find the worst are the people who bitch about the other people who bitch about stuff.
No the worst are the people who passive aggressively bitch at other people's opinions on bitching about bitching.
Fear not! Windows 9 will fix it!!!
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
My favorite bug in System 7.0.0 was that they did away with the Font/DA Mover utility application, now all you have to do to install a font is to drag it into the Fonts folder in the System folder. Of course, if you tried to get rid of a font by dragging it out of the Fonts folder into the Trash, the OS would permanently corrupt itself and never boot again. Seriously. And since Font/DA Mover no longer worked, you couldn't delete a font at all without permanently corrupting your OS install. To make things extra-special, since this was pre-Internet, I corrupted 3 copies of System 7 in this way before I figured out what was making it happen. (It didn't happen right away, not until you rebooted.)
System 7 also broke Carrier Command, one of my favorite games.
Anyway, this is totally off-topic, mod accordingly.
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Holy crap! My Emacs uses less memory than your textbox!
(I browse the web with w3m, which delegates the task of filling text boxes to an editor of my choice)
I would suggest that it's time to people to just get over themselves. If you all really need to be able to run your Rodent's Revenge from 1992, that's fine, just dig out an old machine that does it, or set up a Linux box with Wine.
I won't use a car analogy, but try this: 20 or 30 years ago we all used cassette tapes, which were useful enough in their way, but a fairly sucky medium for sound reproduction. Nobody liked them, but they served their purpose in their time. Then along came the burnable CD, and nobody bought another cassette tape ever again, so almost nobody even bothers to manufacture tape recorders.
There are some things that should just be allowed to die, so we can move on.
Perhaps a port of WINE to Windows 7 is in order...
AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaahahhahhah ahahhahahahaha.... i hurt myself...
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips
Yeah, I'll just tell my current CIO that he should roll out Linux to all 120,000 desktops shall I ?
-Jar
Well, that's better than taking responsibility for a roll out of Vista/Win7 to all 120,000 desktops.
sometimes you just have to recognize the difference between pointing a pea-shooter at your foot, and a shotgun.
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