It's not that bad, actually. A 'major' upgrade according to MS is your hard drive and at least 1 other component. I don't know about you guys, but when I build a new PC, I have the same hard drive(s) in there for YEARS. I may add hard drives, but I never swap out the one that Windows is installed on. MS has already stated that minimal installs (such as memory, a video card, a sound card, etc) will not require reactivation of any kind. Last I heard, larger swap outs, such as a motherboard or CPU, will be granted 10 activations. I seriously doubt that Vista is going to have 1 single reactivation. Even still, you can just call up MS, explain what has happened, and they will issue you a new license. I've had to do it a lot with my WinXP pro install. It's not difficult, people.
"in sharp contrast to slow and resource hungry Windows Vista"
No way in hell. Vista is not slow OR resource hungry. It runs faster than XP, and only uses marginally more memory than XP.
The XP Beta 2 used like 350+MB of memory, but less than 256MB in the final release. Vista beta 2 is using around 500MB. The final release should be a a bit under that as well.
7) Attempts to create new revenue streams have been failures like the Xbox/Xbox 360 marketplace disasters
8) Can't attract/keep good employees now that the stock is no longer going up
9) Can't keep current employees happy - it doesn't matter how you treat an employee if their options are going up dramatically in value every day and that hasn't been the case at MS for many years
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What the heck are you reading to get this kind of bunk info?
Xbox marketplace is skyrocketing. There have been over 25million downloads, and more than 3/4 of that has been purchases.
I also know 6 people who work at MS - all of them are happy. And they tell me that everyone there is amazingly upbeat and enjoy their jobs.
I'm not sure who is telling you this info you're posting, but it's flat out wrong.
Well, I hope you move soon:)
The U.S is canceling all of it's analog TV broadcasts by 2008. Everything is going to be purely digital, baby! yeah!
About time I get more than 10HD channels. Ugh...:)
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It's not that bad, actually.
A 'major' upgrade according to MS is your hard drive and at least 1 other component. I don't know about you guys, but when I build a new PC, I have the same hard drive(s) in there for YEARS. I may add hard drives, but I never swap out the one that Windows is installed on. MS has already stated that minimal installs (such as memory, a video card, a sound card, etc) will not require reactivation of any kind.
Last I heard, larger swap outs, such as a motherboard or CPU, will be granted 10 activations. I seriously doubt that Vista is going to have 1 single reactivation. Even still, you can just call up MS, explain what has happened, and they will issue you a new license. I've had to do it a lot with my WinXP pro install. It's not difficult, people.
Vista isn't slow whatsoever. Unless your PC is really awful. It runs faster on my rig than XP does.
"in sharp contrast to slow and resource hungry Windows Vista" No way in hell. Vista is not slow OR resource hungry. It runs faster than XP, and only uses marginally more memory than XP. The XP Beta 2 used like 350+MB of memory, but less than 256MB in the final release. Vista beta 2 is using around 500MB. The final release should be a a bit under that as well.
7) Attempts to create new revenue streams have been failures like the Xbox/Xbox 360 marketplace disasters 8) Can't attract/keep good employees now that the stock is no longer going up 9) Can't keep current employees happy - it doesn't matter how you treat an employee if their options are going up dramatically in value every day and that hasn't been the case at MS for many years -- What the heck are you reading to get this kind of bunk info? Xbox marketplace is skyrocketing. There have been over 25million downloads, and more than 3/4 of that has been purchases. I also know 6 people who work at MS - all of them are happy. And they tell me that everyone there is amazingly upbeat and enjoy their jobs. I'm not sure who is telling you this info you're posting, but it's flat out wrong.
Well, I hope you move soon :)
The U.S is canceling all of it's analog TV broadcasts by 2008. Everything is going to be purely digital, baby! yeah!
About time I get more than 10HD channels. Ugh... :)