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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 tried to crack Media Player Classic on my Windows 7 build 7990, and then Windows 7 got me laid off from my job, gave my dog a urinary tract infection, and made my wife leave me for a younger, more attractive man. Curse you Windows 7! Does your evil know no bounds?!
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Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Most were small corporations indeed (below 200 employees). The last one is an exception:
German subsidiary of a large US corporation. By itself also below 200 people, but the US corp was a lot larger.
The funny part is that the German subsidiary actually did specific images where required by regulation (PCs used in medical equipment) and tested those too. With test documentation and everything.
But for the typical workplace PC? Nope. We had a wild mix of PCs from the first Pentium IV generation to Core 2 Duo. The management of the subsidiary did not bother to do strict configuration management, and the US corp had a rather inept IT management. I remember an attempt to introduce the IBM Rational tool suite that took some years and a few hundred thousand $, only to end up with a single pilot site in the US (the original plan was to cover the whole corp, including the German subsidiary).
C - the footgun of programming languages
No, I guess I'm not that rabid anymore. The idealism of youth has worn away to the pragmatism of middle age. Love your sig, by the way.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Is anyone else still on Windows 2000? I never saw a reason to upgrade from 2000 to XP, and definitely no reason to "upgrade" to Vista. Windows 2000 does everything I want in a Windows OS. Does no one else feel this way?
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