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Story: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
Posted by: Elisabeth Friis (Thursday 17 November 2005, 8:34 AM)
"Don't give me any arguments about how free any *nix solution is, because retraining your entire workforce is very expensive."
This is a very common FUD statement. Any with general knowledge of Windows will very quickly adapt to f.inst. SUSE, or StarOffice or it's free sister OpenOffice. End-users click on icons, and most office staff fill out forms. Maybe a hard fact to swallow, but look at your fellow business workers.
Why is it always very difficult to switch away from Windows products, and not to a new Windows product?.Where's the similarity of working in XP , NT, 98 or the fiasco ME? How easy will it be to change to the new MS Office, where the user interface is completely different.
Was it easy the move from NT server to 2000server, or from 2000Server to 2003 Server, where ALL administrative menus and methods were changed.
Was the AD a simple thing to do ?
There might be improvements in Vista, comparing to other systems there is a lot of room for improvements. And again we will listen to the tale that this time it is correct, like W/2000 "The OS that will never need a fixpack" as stated by Balmer.
And again disciples will believe it, and pay once more for MS trying to write a decent piece of SW. Time to get off the spiral of death.
Full Talkback thread
Story: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
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Ignore Vista completly. Thats my advice. Vista req... Magnus Grander -
Couldn't agree more. Vista is yet another NT... Bob Robertson -
Yeah, because in all offices, the software th... Kurt Christ
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Any half trained office monkey can be tr... spk037 -
"Don't give me any arguments about how f... Elisabeth Friis -
Vista is a good work. kholk
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Vista Anonymous
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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
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Windows does not support most of the hardware... Mirza Borogovac
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have you ever try to install Windows xp... towsonu2003 -
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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