I agree with you that diversity is preferable to monoism (if such a word exists, but you get the concept), but the critique of it is that the result of diversity is complexity, and in this case Microsoft's offering of 7 differing versions of Vista may initiallly confuse customers and put them off.
There was this tv advert for Malibu (jamaican rum), and this fruit melon shop goes over-the-top on customer service, telling customers to collect tickets for being served, offering melons according to various factors, and so on. This guy at the back goes "I just want to buy a Melon" at the end, a great ad which takes the mick out of British Retailers
Anyway, the point of that was that diversity can result in complexity which can stifle things like people buying lemons, or in the case of Linux application developers, making sure their apps run on Linux (when there are soo many distros). This is apparently one of the reasons cited for why application development on Linux is unattractive, but thankfully projects like autopackage.org and the mono framework will go some way to tackling this issue.
In the case of Microsoft offering 7 variants of Vista, I recommend that they give a good concise guide to customers about how to choose which one to get, according to user profiling or a comparison of product features and pricing. I'm assuming that each variant will share the same software core, so that application developers won't suffer from what current Linux developers struggle with.
What scares me about this is if you can distribute viruses via mp3 players, imagine what will happen when normal household appliances get computerised!
My car will drive itself to Mexico without me, the door will let salesman into the house, and worse of all, my satellite box will make me watch through commercials as the sofa straps me in and winches my eyelids open...
Now I know why the amish community reject technology altogether.
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Imagine if Google was secretly a government covert operation under a non-threatening company stance, looking to find out everything about anything, in a freaky big-brother-esque reality? That would be quite an interesting holywood shab-shot movie...
It's funny to think that the company with the technically better product should be the small player in such a tech-driven market, but that shows you just how brilliant MS's business strategy was when they banged out the deal with IBM regarding DOS.
Not only that, Apple's tight control on hardware and software discouraged developers, and I think that's been their hardest lesson, but now that they've switched to Intel, I just wish they'd just let Mac OSX run on any platform, people are screaming for it, in fact, we should start a petition for it...
Your right, it was released 5 years ago, around the same time as 2000, but unlike 2000 (which was based on Windows NT), Me was based on the main windows builds of 95 and 98. Me looked like 2000, but was nowhere near as stable as 2000, and a lot of people got annoyed about how Microsoft would release new versions of Windows within a few years of each other.
Apparently when 95 got released, MS promoted it as though it was an invention worthy of comparison to the wheel, but what was worse was that there were people who believed them...! Yikes
That's what I heard too. I think they've put openSUSE together with the layoff's and thought that Novell were trying to get SUSE Linux developed on the cheap.
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AOhelL and Micro$haft coming together, truly a match made in heaven...
hmm, I wonder if Bush will go to war in the Persian Gulf, at least he'll think that's where Persian Cats come from...
I agree with you that diversity is preferable to monoism (if such a word exists, but you get the concept), but the critique of it is that the result of diversity is complexity, and in this case Microsoft's offering of 7 differing versions of Vista may initiallly confuse customers and put them off.
There was this tv advert for Malibu (jamaican rum), and this fruit melon shop goes over-the-top on customer service, telling customers to collect tickets for being served, offering melons according to various factors, and so on. This guy at the back goes "I just want to buy a Melon" at the end, a great ad which takes the mick out of British Retailers
Anyway, the point of that was that diversity can result in complexity which can stifle things like people buying lemons, or in the case of Linux application developers, making sure their apps run on Linux (when there are soo many distros). This is apparently one of the reasons cited for why application development on Linux is unattractive, but thankfully projects like autopackage.org and the mono framework will go some way to tackling this issue.
In the case of Microsoft offering 7 variants of Vista, I recommend that they give a good concise guide to customers about how to choose which one to get, according to user profiling or a comparison of product features and pricing. I'm assuming that each variant will share the same software core, so that application developers won't suffer from what current Linux developers struggle with.
I wonder if the rising cost is anything to do with the amount of starbucks coffee those covert code-monkeys consume?
My car will drive itself to Mexico without me, the door will let salesman into the house, and worse of all, my satellite box will make me watch through commercials as the sofa straps me in and winches my eyelids open...
Now I know why the amish community reject technology altogether.Imagine if Google was secretly a government covert operation under a non-threatening company stance, looking to find out everything about anything, in a freaky big-brother-esque reality? That would be quite an interesting holywood shab-shot movie...
May the flame wars begin ;)
Not only that, Apple's tight control on hardware and software discouraged developers, and I think that's been their hardest lesson, but now that they've switched to Intel, I just wish they'd just let Mac OSX run on any platform, people are screaming for it, in fact, we should start a petition for it...
Your right, it was released 5 years ago, around the same time as 2000, but unlike 2000 (which was based on Windows NT), Me was based on the main windows builds of 95 and 98. Me looked like 2000, but was nowhere near as stable as 2000, and a lot of people got annoyed about how Microsoft would release new versions of Windows within a few years of each other.
Apparently when 95 got released, MS promoted it as though it was an invention worthy of comparison to the wheel, but what was worse was that there were people who believed them...! Yikes
Would the Russians go that far for $10,000? Good thing it wasn't... 1 million dollars ;)
What happens if it turns light? Does it affect their ability to land the shuttle?
I don't think its wrong to Love M$, but it's cool to hate it ;)
That's what I heard too. I think they've put openSUSE together with the layoff's and thought that Novell were trying to get SUSE Linux developed on the cheap. ------------------- Mr Spanky, the erotic goldfish www.opensuse.co.uk