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Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops
snydeq writes "Enterprise licensing for Windows 7 could cause major headaches and add more cost to the Windows 7 migration effort, InfoWorld reports. Under the proposed license, businesses that purchase PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed within six months of the Oct. 23 launch date will be able to downgrade those systems to XP, and later upgrade back to Windows 7 when ready to migrate users. PCs bought after April 22, 2010, however, can only be downgraded to Vista — no help for XP-based organizations, which would be wise to wait 12 to 18 months before adopting Windows 7, so that they can test hardware and software compatibility and ensure their vendors' Windows 7 support meets their needs. XP shops that chose not to install Vista will have to either rush their migration process or spend extra to enroll in Microsoft's Software Assurance program, which allows them to install any OS version — for about $90 per year per PC."
Upgrade to downgrade and then to upgrade again..... I wonder if Bing.com will become bong then bing again?
Sig? No thanks. I don't smoke.
I think the details of this will be filtered out of BING.
Vista 7 is made from chilli.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Geeze! That was the worst karma whoring post I've seen in a looooong time! It's not far from, "I don't care! We run Linux!"
I'm sure there will be Mac shop admins saying the same thing later on.
A better way you could have K whored would have been to say "Hmmm. What I think this will do is start shops migrating to Linux distros with desktops that are clones of XP. This will only hurt Microsoft in the end."
See? Sounds intelligent and like you're stating an educated opinion. The mods would see it and think, "Hmmmm. This guy has a point and it's a positive post about Linux."
Work on it.
P.S. It can work with Apple - replace "Linux" with "Apple" above - sometimes, though. OSX doesn't have the cache that Linux does regarding topics like this.
The release candidate will have been available for 11 months come april of next year, which is plenty of time to test hardware. Given that 7 is primarily an upgrade to Vista applications and drivers will not have issues, at least not unknown ones.
Vista can add security and stability to some environments when installed correctly. The same will be true with Windows 7 at final release, and will do so without as many slowdowns that Vista brings.
Just like it's suboptimal to run very old hardware with new operating systems, it's also suboptimal to run new hardware with an old system. Device vendors often fail to provide adequate drivers for outdated operating systems, and like it or not the base hardware in today's systems is completely different than it was back when XP was new.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
I would love to sign up, then flood their call centers with complaints that Win 3.11 won't run on my New i7 build = D
Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property; A Corporation is the legal fiction that property is a person.
Ironically, I wasted several mental cycles trying to parse that sentence.
Brain@Home?
Hate that goddamn ribbon, if it wasnt for keyboard shortcuts I still couldnt print or save.
Good-bye
Also, using boxen in a sentence is cause for automatic suspension of your nerd license. On the other hand, it also qualifies you to receive a script kiddie license at no charge.
We're on XP...
They are thinking of going Vista because of the 1 on 1 MS support we have.
Most techs here are well against any move away from XP...
Vista II or 7 depending what your take is is not an option.
We want out of the M$ revenue tree...
Just code something that works and we'll pay for the patches/upgrades.
Stop trying to sell us new stuff that just takes up more CPU cycles for no good reason.
This industry is going nowhere fast.
Burma-shave!
Even though you're gay for linux, you seem to be able to see /. for what it is.
Mac shops have admins?
I thought they just had baristas.
a cow-orkers laptop
This post brought to you by explicit.slashdot.org. Let's keep it SFW, guys. None of this backwoods paraphilia.
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
Looks like I crossed the memes. "cow-orker" appears regularly in alt.sysadmin.recovery.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Even though you're gay for linux, you seem to be able to see /. for what it is.
How can you be gay for linux? Does that mean you are a linux too? Or is it simply enough to be any sort of OS? Like Vista?
If you are Vista and you want to have sex with Linux, does that make you gay?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Every day I ask myself: was I just born gay for linux? Or did I choose to be that way?
Remember, Gates hates Fags.
Also, using boxen in a sentence is cause for automatic suspension of your nerd license.
Your nerd license is hereby suspended.
You chose to be that way.
You UID which is slightly higher then mine which suggests that you were born before Linux meaning you fell in love/lust afterwords.
No. But having sex with Vista makes you a pervert. She is obviously a large fat two-year-old girl in colorful plastic semi-transparent fetish clothes.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Maybe Linux was born for him? To fill the hole, so to speak. *ducks* ;)
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Yeah, The Internet is a fucking hypocrite. It's almost like it's an amalgamation of a huge number of people with a huge number of differing opinions instead of a single entity. Doesn't it know it must be internally consistent, ideologically!?
Geeze. The Internet is also pretty sarcastic.
The enemies of Democracy are
Windows is far from the only obstacle keeping Linux off the desktop.
Blasphemer!
Linux is perfect, it is totally ready for the desktop.
I want to tell you all the reasons why linux is perfect, but I'm going to have to keep this brief, since I'm still recovering from a kernal update that went horribly wrong. but once I get my wifi working again, I can fix my no sound in flash issues. Hopefully, that wont break my DVD playback abilities this time, which i finally got to work, despite the screen saver still popping up after being turned off...
but, once I get all that out of the way, you can expect a long list of reasons why linux is indeed ready for the desktop.
-I only code in BASIC.-
Strangely enough, the internet is pretty consistent, you're just measuring the wrong thing and calling it signal. The internet says, loud and clear,
99% PORN
1% Mindless rambling about other crap while waiting for porn to download.
The internet is a steadfast brick wall of consistency. Or perhaps a hard, throbbing rod of consistency.
Those damn Developers.... makes me think Ballmer loves them or something.
Blasphemer!
Windows is perfect, it is totally ready for the desktop.
I want to tell you all the reasons why windows is perfect, but I'm going to have to keep this brief, since I'm still recovering from a windows update that went horribly wrong. but once I track down the update failed error code I can start re-adding my printer and network definitions, then I can start looking at cleaning out my corrupted registry and removing these visues I keep getting. Hopefully, that wont break my DVD playback abilities this time, which i finally got to work, despite the screen saver still popping up after being turned off...
but, once I get all that out of the way, you can expect a long list of reasons why windows is indeed ready for the desktop, unlike linux, which has no END of problems!
No, it means that Linux is into bestiality or possibly necrophilia.
No, that's BSD.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Looks like I crossed the memes.
You fool! You'll kill us all!