Unfortunatly, Windows 2000 is more stable than other Microsoft operating systems because it is running the NT kernel, which does not mean that Windows ME will be any more stable than Windows 98, just because the removed DOS access - if anything, it will limit the operating system even further.
Gartner laid out a typical scenario: A corporation purchases 5,000 PCs from Hewlett-Packard with Windows 2000 installed. But the company puts its own custom software on the systems using Select media provided by Microsoft. By Microsoft's interpretation, the customer would be required to pay an extra $117 to $157 per computer--or $585,000 to $758,000 total--for the right to install the Windows 2000 it had already paid HP for.
If a company is planning to buy this many computers to begin with, they most likely have an IT department for support, so why don't they create an image from one of the newly arrived computers and ghost it to all of the other machines (which in this example will be identical anyway), which saves the expence of the computer company pre-installing extra applications, stops Microsoft from leeching money that they aren't entitled to from the company in question, and put the 5,000 licenses they just paid for to good use (Because, and please correct me if I'm wrong, this is legal as long as you have paid for a licensed copy of Windows for each computer).
As a side note, if more assistance was given to the Open Windows project, it could be completed sooner, and companies wouldn't have to pay for any copies of Windows....
I think that it's about time that someone made a decent attempt at creating a handheld computer without resorting to specialised chips and operating systems.
All it needs now is a small LCD and keyboard to complete the job.
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Unfortunatly, Windows 2000 is more stable than other Microsoft operating systems because it is running the NT kernel, which does not mean that Windows ME will be any more stable than Windows 98, just because the removed DOS access - if anything, it will limit the operating system even further.
Gartner laid out a typical scenario: A corporation purchases 5,000 PCs from Hewlett-Packard with Windows 2000 installed. But the company puts its own custom software on the systems using Select media provided by Microsoft. By Microsoft's interpretation, the customer would be required to pay an extra $117 to $157 per computer--or $585,000 to $758,000 total--for the right to install the Windows 2000 it had already paid HP for.
If a company is planning to buy this many computers to begin with, they most likely have an IT department for support, so why don't they create an image from one of the newly arrived computers and ghost it to all of the other machines (which in this example will be identical anyway), which saves the expence of the computer company pre-installing extra applications, stops Microsoft from leeching money that they aren't entitled to from the company in question, and put the 5,000 licenses they just paid for to good use (Because, and please correct me if I'm wrong, this is legal as long as you have paid for a licensed copy of Windows for each computer).
As a side note, if more assistance was given to the Open Windows project, it could be completed sooner, and companies wouldn't have to pay for any copies of Windows....
I believe that it might be part of the on-line technical support...... ;)
I think that it's about time that someone made a decent attempt at creating a handheld computer without resorting to specialised chips and operating systems.
All it needs now is a small LCD and keyboard to complete the job.