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Story: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
Posted by: Anonymous (Friday 25 November 2005, 3:18 AM)
"Install XP from sratch...Everytime, it was hell"
Your experience is sad but likely not the norm. I've never ever had a problem from Dells to No-Names. And I've done literally tens of them, perhaps up to a hundred since XPr1.
Windows flavors are operating systems. Every OS has its goods and bads.
I work in software, designing and developing creating services and businessware for a major eTailer. It's my gig and I've been doing it since Apple2's and DOS3x's. I own Macs and I own Windows boxes. If your opinion is supposed to be valid then mine should be too, as a professional user of the releases from both of the major vendors. And here's mine that logically will even out yours:
"Ever tried upgrading from Panther to Tiger OR starting from scrtach with TIger just a month after it came out? I have and I counted the mass of download patches required just to get Tiger to work (one month aftret it was released: 117MB then reboot then another set then reboot then find out that if you want your printers to work you have to petition GIMP because Apple says 'we support open source and don't support the drivers that you paid for with TIger.'
XP setups, in this person's humble experience, have been a cool breeze in comparison
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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
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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 -
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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