Porting to Vista
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dan neely wrote:
violating best pratices originally documented for win2k
Would you mind pointing a lazy and busy man in the rough direction of such documentation?
Pits fall into Chuck Norris.
I believe this will lead to the XP version. Not sure where to find the older win2k one. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/System/platform/pcdesign/XPguidelines.mspx[^]
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon
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dan neely wrote:
If you have any (publicly shareable) material about the navy + vista adoption I'd love to be able to wave it in certain peoples faces.
Nothing that is really shareable, I don't talk much with the navy. But there is hope some of the embedded OS's especially a cut-down and improved XP for embedded systems offers hope for the Navy and others. Microsoft has refused to remove the phone home bit, though made it manageable with enterprise solutions, but requires at least one validation. This means imaging of disks after validation, and tools for reinserting licenses, which again is doable under XP. The Navy could have made this work, we do it all the time for offline computers, though admitedly not for the first year of XP. Vista is a whole new ballgame, new things to learn, new validation chatter to MS, new licenses, and no reasonable offer on enterprise level licensing to the military -- though pressure will mount I am sure. There is no way to go to Vista right now, and it is still forbidden, per se, but it is encouraged to try to see what it will take in those departments that are offline. In other words, if you put this on our network, we will confiscate your equipment, but we want you to try it on your own internal networks at your own expense whereever possible. ;) I doubt the Navy will move soon. Though I expect drivers are getting to be a hassle so there are grumblings about following the Army's Redhat route, without much enthusiasm, inquiries without much enthusiasm I should say, and embedded OS's with a little more hopefull mutterings. All in all, don't hold your breath. They could have made XP work if they had wanted to, but didn't. So I expect there will be hold outs for as long as possible.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
El Corazon wrote:
All in all, don't hold your breath. They could have made XP work if they had wanted to, but didn't. So I expect there will be hold outs for as long as possible.
That's what I was afraid of. :(( :(( I'm still waiting for confirmation one way or the other about the last NT4 systems running my app finally being retired....
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always get punched out when I reach 4.... -- El Corazon