Windows "Vienna"/"Seven"/"7" FAQ
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This information comes from a publicly-available Microsoft slide deck: Easier More secure Better connected Lower cost I think those phrases should be banned from use by an software development house. Usage should incur a stiff fine, like $1 million dollars to randomly selected CPian. At this point, I am so sick of hearing those buzzwords. Mental note: remove all buzzwords from my Interacx website. :~ Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
This information comes from a publicly-available Microsoft slide deck: Easier More secure Better connected Lower cost I think those phrases should be banned from use by an software development house. Usage should incur a stiff fine, like $1 million dollars to randomly selected CPian. At this point, I am so sick of hearing those buzzwords. Mental note: remove all buzzwords from my Interacx website. :~ Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
The features that were supposed to be in Vista? Or do we have code names for service packs now?
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The features that were supposed to be in Vista? Or do we have code names for service packs now?
Trollslayer wrote:
The features that were supposed to be in Vista? Or do we have code names for service packs now?
Yes we do. They realized that they can advertise vaporware (features that never were there and never will be) and then come out with the next latest and greatest OS with those very same features and charge dearly for it. X|
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This information comes from a publicly-available Microsoft slide deck: Easier More secure Better connected Lower cost I think those phrases should be banned from use by an software development house. Usage should incur a stiff fine, like $1 million dollars to randomly selected CPian. At this point, I am so sick of hearing those buzzwords. Mental note: remove all buzzwords from my Interacx website. :~ Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh SmithMarc Clifton wrote:
This information comes from a publicly-available Microsoft slide deck: Easier More secure Better connected Lower cost
Sounds like what they were saying about Vista! :~ Did they build this one from the ground up for security also? :rolleyes:
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I am tired of them moving so slowly. Yes, they dumped out a lot of great technology over the last two years, but they need to keep it moving, not slow down. The next major version to be released in 2011 is a joke as fast on technology is moving. It should be ever two years for major releases not every four (or 7 years as with Vista). I think if they wait for a major release by 2011, they might find themselves in a Linux shadow if they do not watch out. Not that I think Linux is any kind of competition for Vista at the moment, but the Linux world is moving faster to catch up when Microsoft moves the bar. I am sure it will not take the Linux world over a year or two to catch Vista.
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I am tired of them moving so slowly. Yes, they dumped out a lot of great technology over the last two years, but they need to keep it moving, not slow down. The next major version to be released in 2011 is a joke as fast on technology is moving. It should be ever two years for major releases not every four (or 7 years as with Vista). I think if they wait for a major release by 2011, they might find themselves in a Linux shadow if they do not watch out. Not that I think Linux is any kind of competition for Vista at the moment, but the Linux world is moving faster to catch up when Microsoft moves the bar. I am sure it will not take the Linux world over a year or two to catch Vista.
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I get the impression most businesses prefer stability with OS releases, so the MS schedule is about right. Look how many people are sticking with XP despite Vista's being two years late.
Kevin
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I get the impression most businesses prefer stability with OS releases, so the MS schedule is about right. Look how many people are sticking with XP despite Vista's being two years late.
Kevin
Change too much, people get scared and insist they have to retest everything. Change too little, people ask what's the point? Amazingly, with Windows Vista it appears that they've managed to do both!
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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I get the impression most businesses prefer stability with OS releases, so the MS schedule is about right. Look how many people are sticking with XP despite Vista's being two years late.
Kevin
Kevin, do you have any evidence that people are sticking to XP because of (lacking??) stability of Vista? I have every reason to believe it's not stability, but good reasons exist to abstain exist indeed: Vista just doesn't handle. The security approach is unbearable for commercial users. Good looks are not everything... and probably do not count when business is concerned. Personally, I do not believe the 40 million copies MS put out are actually in use. Well, maybe some people only need word, excel, email and browser... but that's not an OS, is it? Rolf
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Kevin, do you have any evidence that people are sticking to XP because of (lacking??) stability of Vista? I have every reason to believe it's not stability, but good reasons exist to abstain exist indeed: Vista just doesn't handle. The security approach is unbearable for commercial users. Good looks are not everything... and probably do not count when business is concerned. Personally, I do not believe the 40 million copies MS put out are actually in use. Well, maybe some people only need word, excel, email and browser... but that's not an OS, is it? Rolf
I think you misunderstood me. I was saying that regardless of the merits of Vista businesses don't like to upgrade OSes too frequently. That's what I meant by "stability," not stability of the OS.
Kevin