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Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista
Barence writes "IT analyst firm Gartner has told businesses to skip Vista and prepare to roll out Windows 7. Companies have traditionally been advised to wait until the first Service Pack of an operating system arrives before considering migration. However, Gartner is urging organisations that aren't already midway through Vista deployments to give the much-maligned operating system a miss. 'Preparing for Vista will require the same amount of effort as preparing for Windows 7, so at this point, targeting Windows 7 would add less than six months to the schedule and would result in a plan that is more politically palatable, better for users, and results in greater longevity.' Even businesses that are midway through planning a Vista migration are urged to consider scrapping the deployment. 'Consider switching to Windows 7 if it would delay deployment by six months or less.'"
It's the beginning of the end of the road for the motherfuckers. They just ran out of operating systems to hype (in case the lower-IQ /. readers haven't yet realized that 7 == Vista SP2). Microsoft's intertia will keep them running for another 20 years before they run out of lobbying money. Then the contractors will drop Microsoft's operating system like pro sports' streaming has already dropped Silverlight.
Unless you have something else for us, Microsoft. Please, let's see it! I'm sooo looking forward to the Zune II! PFFFFFFhahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I thought Windows 7 was everybody's pet name for Vista SP1.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
I slam candles in my ass and imagine bill gates walking out of a store with a boxed linux in his shopping cart and seinfeld wiggling his ass and dancing with microsoft windows flag colored currency curled into his belt.
makes me cum every time
and a .9 probability that he underperforms, if you know what I mean!
I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
The advantages to you are that you have too much money and Microsoft don't have enough, it's about equilibrium and all that bullshit. By donating to a multi-billion-dollar bonus fund you can feel good about yourself that you have helped a poor board member while also ensuring that you couldn't spend that money on anything wasteful......like food for example. By cutting back on food you can lose some weight which has all sorts of benefits. A fitness regime which consists in part of vigorous forum posting demanding that XP be allowed to live beyond it's execution date will help too. Don't helping your fellow man feel good?
Is Gartner a subsidiary of Microsoft?
Of course, all those DirectX 10 and 10.1 video cards will need to be replaced for W7.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."