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Story: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
Posted by: Don B (Saturday 12 November 2005, 12:06 AM)
"One thing is for sure. Vista will look a lot prettier than mac os x. And that is more than enough reason to upgrade. Other reasons would be for example the fact that it supports pretty much any hardware ever made. Now that is something neither mac or *nix do not deliver. What else. Oh yeah that's right you can run pretty much all software known to man on it. Again something mac and *nix lack.."
Rofl.. Vista doesn't look "prettier" than OSX- which is subjective anyway. An operating system should do what you need it to do and do it in a stable and reliable fashion. The way it looks being "reason enough" might be the most foolish thing I've ever heard. If that was the criteria Apple Lisa and the first Mac's would've stomped Windows- not to mention OS/2.
There is plenty of hardware, by the way, that I have right here beside me that doesn't work in Windows XP so quit lying about "pretty much any hardware". In fact, I have far far better support for hardware in Linux for everything that I own.
Each platform has it's own strengths and weaknesses. *nix's weakness is that common commercial apps aren't ported to it. Windows' weaknesses are too numerous to mention here. It's strenght is marketing, ubiquity, and familiarity.
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Story: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
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Ignore Vista completly. Thats my advice. Vista req... Magnus Grander -
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Yeah, because in all offices, the software th... Kurt Christ
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"Don't give me any arguments about how f... Elisabeth Friis
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Vista is a good work. kholk
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From those who have watched Windows users twist in... Mac User - X-Windows Drone
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I think that Vista will be to XP what ME was... Dilbert
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abandon one tyrannical company for another, v... bah
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One thing is for sure. Vista will look a lot prett... gorbel
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Ignorance is bliss Windows Fan Boy!
I'm sitti... Ben Der
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"Your stuck sucking on viruses, worms, s... Anonymous
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"One thing is for sure. Vista will look a lot... Don B -
Windows does not support most of the hardware... Mirza Borogovac
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Yes I am always amazed when reinsta... Anonymous
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"Install XP from sratch...Everytime... Anonymous
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Here's what's funny. Win NT was originally design... tm2b
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Vista isn't simply a super-patched version of... Joe S.
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Has Gartner used the beta for VIsta? the... Chris Ashtear
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Joe S. -- you DO realize that NONE of t... PatriotB
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Dump Windows ?? kidding right ? umair
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I heard about Vista requiring a mon... sb
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What inspired the new GUI for... Anonymous
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The HDMI requirement, AFAIK, i... David Wright
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DRM Monitor?? huh? kholk
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On the other hand Dave Cutler wanted a comman... Drew
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Make that 2010. Given Vista 1,2 and 3. Excluding t... Arthur B.
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Get SUSE instead of "upgrading" to Vista. Anonymous
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Patriot: You DO realize that Vista is built from s... Harijs G.
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Harijs G. - show us ONE piece of evidence tha... PatriotB
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The only OS built from scratch from MS i... Dilbert
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Vista is indeed based on WindowsNT Server 5.2. The... David Goodwin
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I've read all your posts with great interest.... Anonymous
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No programmer should ever be let near th... Jon
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You guys are barking at the wrong tree.
Gartner is... C-Fu
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People that want to wait for Vista because of some... Arthur B.
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Isn't the next version of Mac OS going to be... Caped Crusader
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There is only one reason to use Linux: F... Anonymous
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Freedom to pick up and SDK and try... Anonymous
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couldn't agree more... Heck I tell clients this A... William Wheeler
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