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« on: September 11, 2006, 09:46:05 am »
kinda makes you wonder if vista is worth the bother. most IT pros. I have talked with state pretty much the same fears, too much glitz, drm,no back compatability, and with the recent "geniune Advantage" debacale my main concern would be how low M$ has sunk when they deploy spyware to check their OS. seems that now would be a good time for SUSE10.1 live or Ubuntu "dapper drake" to make a more public push. shame to see so many older OS. (that are still in use in offices and online business) kicked to the curb so fast. A six year update life is not acceptable if you paid 300-400 big ones at release day,you could have waited a year and paid a third of the price. what really steams me is that they had plans to kill XP this year and were forced to back down when too many professionals cried foul. supprised if they don't have a kill date posted for server 2000 soon. I honestly think the public will be staying with the versions they carry in their systems now, with the present economy most won't be putting systems or upgraded OS's on their high prioriy list anytime soon. (food and shelter seem to be a bigger problem to the lower income and the middle class are pretty much non exsistant so we won't bother counting them in. why that leaves the rich and microsloth employies. LOL.)