The reason Microsoft has such a monopoly in the OS market anyway is that they give such volume discounts to hardware manufacturers if they preinstall OS's on new hardware. So, if you're going to include new machines in with this upgrade, then vista will only add about $30 per machine. OOOOOO. Big whoop. Volume discount office is also nowhere near the retail price - but who the heck upgrades all of the software in their department at once?
These numbers are correct, if their IT people are incompetent.
Microsoft should pay the existing, independent DNS server operators to subsidize scaling for the traffic their products create. MS is making $BILLIONS off the Internet; they should reinvest more in its infrastructure.
I'm sure with Vista coming out soon that Redmond would love to obfuscate or disappear these utilities that would help let people know what Vista is really doing under the hood.
Why are people so prone to conspiracy theories? Why why why? *cry*
for the Trillian engineers! Seriously Instant Messaging needs to be opened up into SOME standard. I think MSFT/YHOO just got tired of being AOL's bitch. It isn't like they care about you you know.
Tired of being AOL's bitch? Microsoft already had the bigger network worldwide. AOL is only in the US.
In nine out of 14 cases, the dolphin would turn more often toward the speaker if it heard a whistle that sounded like a close relative's.
7 out of 14 would be expected if it were random...9 out of 14 is nothing more than a statistical fluke. They should have done more tests...this study sounds like nothing more than a coincidence.
Uh...there's only been one before that? What do they define as an android? Because there's obviously a very low bar of quality if they consider that to be an android. Pretty sure all of the tin cans with legs from the 1950's should also qualify as androids if this does.
Of course Apple is going to make an announcement. And of course Apple's stocks are going to go up 10 points on saturday, because 'investors' are really gamblers. If they were smart gamblers, they would buy Apple's stocks *before* saturday.
Google allows retention of domain control, you just point your mx record at them.
Microsoft is going for Joe Sixpack who wants to have branded email. Google is going for the bigger guys that really know what there doing and what they want.
No, I'm talking about live.com custom domains, not live office. Live office is for joe sixpack; live.com custom domains do exactly what gmail does.
If slashdot publishes your review, slashdot sucks. =P
do the people at network world even *use* networks? christ almighty. "skype was a top 20 network changing product"?
Do you even *read* the news?
Skype was a pioneer of what will probably become a major unique networking scenario in the next few years. All of the major network software companies are jumping on the bandwagon, and I'm sure it's going to be a scenario that drives a lot of changes.
They're sound business tactics, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're right or make sense. Leveraging a monopoly is also a very sound business tactic.
i realize everyone thinks they're cute by making cracks about how we don't want to test planes by crashing them, but it's actually pretty awesome that we're to the point where we can get all of the info we need about in-flight stuff in just 6 seconds, and that we don't have to worry about making the plane able to land in order to test the engine. it should speed up development time, and who knows, maybe a plane flight to tokyo won't put you in danger of deep vein thrombosis. =p
I'd like to add...parses and displays.doc files way worse than any other Word alternative I've ever seen. They should have just gone with their own document format, unless they plan on really improving their rendering system.
Do people honestly believe that consumers are the ones who benefit most from a new operating system?
Consumers are their own worst enemy. The reason everyone is marketing eye candy is because that is what people want (or think they want). Companies are smart - they try to sell what the consumer is going to pay for. The problem is that consumers don't make smart buying decisions. SUVs sell like crazy in the middle of the city for crying out loud. They buy what looks cool.
Don't blame the companies - blame people for only buying what superficially looks good.
"I've noticed that Google seem to wait for a technology to develop, see where it trips up, then make its own GVersion. Kind of nifty, really."
I think you mean,"Kind of Microsoft".
I'm not sure why this got modded as flamebait. I think it's a very astute observation. Microsoft typically doesn't push technology - they do not operate like a technology company - they operate like a marketing company. They don't push into a field until they see it as profitable (which is the same as waiting for the technology to develop).
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The reason Microsoft has such a monopoly in the OS market anyway is that they give such volume discounts to hardware manufacturers if they preinstall OS's on new hardware. So, if you're going to include new machines in with this upgrade, then vista will only add about $30 per machine. OOOOOO. Big whoop. Volume discount office is also nowhere near the retail price - but who the heck upgrades all of the software in their department at once?
These numbers are correct, if their IT people are incompetent.
with 8 cores, that no one cares about Beowulf clusters anymore. :(
I suppose you could run 8 VMs on the machine and make a Beowulf cluster out of those.
Microsoft should pay the existing, independent DNS server operators to subsidize scaling for the traffic their products create. MS is making $BILLIONS off the Internet; they should reinvest more in its infrastructure.
Senator Stevens, is that you?
I'm seeing both "more stable than expected" and "not ready for prime time" being used to describe Vista.
Maybe it's a quantum spin.
I'm sure with Vista coming out soon that Redmond would love to obfuscate or disappear these utilities that would help let people know what Vista is really doing under the hood.
Why are people so prone to conspiracy theories? Why why why? *cry*
for the Trillian engineers! Seriously Instant Messaging needs to be opened up into SOME standard. I think MSFT/YHOO just got tired of being AOL's bitch. It isn't like they care about you you know.
Tired of being AOL's bitch? Microsoft already had the bigger network worldwide. AOL is only in the US.
friends. Although, judging from how they've tricked out their room, they're probably in short supply of those.
But Morgellons seem to be on the uprise.
Maybe that's because crazy people are on the rise. Bush got re-elected, after all.
Don't worry, I have mod points! Oh, wait...
haha...why has nobody modded you up? I'll give you - aw... =(
I don't know if this is what was meant, but it seems that WMP11 starts up very fast and at first uses far less RAM than 10
Wow, not only did you not read the article, but you didn't even read the summary of the article before posting.
In nine out of 14 cases, the dolphin would turn more often toward the speaker if it heard a whistle that sounded like a close relative's.
7 out of 14 would be expected if it were random...9 out of 14 is nothing more than a statistical fluke. They should have done more tests...this study sounds like nothing more than a coincidence.
Uh...there's only been one before that? What do they define as an android? Because there's obviously a very low bar of quality if they consider that to be an android. Pretty sure all of the tin cans with legs from the 1950's should also qualify as androids if this does.
I think Dell well end up as a Real Doll.
What the freak, man, I'm at work.
Isn't this like Pinocchio claiming that he isn't Geppetto's puppet?
:-)
Not at the end of the story. Pinocchio ended up being a real boy.
I don't see much of a future for dell ever becoming a real boy.
Of course Apple is going to make an announcement. And of course Apple's stocks are going to go up 10 points on saturday, because 'investors' are really gamblers. If they were smart gamblers, they would buy Apple's stocks *before* saturday.
I pirated my parents' genes.
They should have used DRM.
What a stupid article.
Google allows retention of domain control, you just point your mx record at them.
Microsoft is going for Joe Sixpack who wants to have branded email. Google is going for the bigger guys that really know what there doing and what they want.
No, I'm talking about live.com custom domains, not live office. Live office is for joe sixpack; live.com custom domains do exactly what gmail does.
If slashdot publishes your review, slashdot sucks. =P
This is actually something that microsoft came out with before google. Weird.
do the people at network world even *use* networks? christ almighty. "skype was a top 20 network changing product"?
Do you even *read* the news?
Skype was a pioneer of what will probably become a major unique networking scenario in the next few years. All of the major network software companies are jumping on the bandwagon, and I'm sure it's going to be a scenario that drives a lot of changes.
Where's SQL server 7.0? It changed the way we thought about worms and default passwords. :-D
They're sound business tactics, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're right or make sense. Leveraging a monopoly is also a very sound business tactic.
i realize everyone thinks they're cute by making cracks about how we don't want to test planes by crashing them, but it's actually pretty awesome that we're to the point where we can get all of the info we need about in-flight stuff in just 6 seconds, and that we don't have to worry about making the plane able to land in order to test the engine. it should speed up development time, and who knows, maybe a plane flight to tokyo won't put you in danger of deep vein thrombosis. =p
good job, brits.
Quick review... Problems:
.doc files way worse than any other Word alternative I've ever seen. They should have just gone with their own document format, unless they plan on really improving their rendering system.
I'd like to add...parses and displays
Do people honestly believe that consumers are the ones who benefit most from a new operating system?
Consumers are their own worst enemy. The reason everyone is marketing eye candy is because that is what people want (or think they want). Companies are smart - they try to sell what the consumer is going to pay for. The problem is that consumers don't make smart buying decisions. SUVs sell like crazy in the middle of the city for crying out loud. They buy what looks cool.
Don't blame the companies - blame people for only buying what superficially looks good.
"I've noticed that Google seem to wait for a technology to develop, see where it trips up, then make its own GVersion. Kind of nifty, really."
I think you mean,"Kind of Microsoft".
I'm not sure why this got modded as flamebait. I think it's a very astute observation. Microsoft typically doesn't push technology - they do not operate like a technology company - they operate like a marketing company. They don't push into a field until they see it as profitable (which is the same as waiting for the technology to develop).