Allan - I run Windows only because I HAVE to.... and on as few machines as possible.
You make me sound like an MS evangelist - but that's so far from the truth as I avoid MS product wherever I can. I run Macs in the office for our artists, Linux on some desktops, Linux/Unix on all my servers and only run Vista on a couple of machines because I'm a software development manager and need to know that our products will run on the platforms that our customers buy.
New laptops will be manufactured with BIOS/firmware which depends on Vista to run. There are functions and features in the new OS that old hardware won't support any more. Given that, it doesn't mean that you can't still blow it away and run Linux if you prefer - or Solaris... or BSD... or whatever. It just means that the hardware won't still support XP
natively, which is a dead system. Sad (to some) but true. It's gone. XP's SP3 is what killed much of the time MS engineers had to work on getting Vista ready because XP was so prone to hackers, virii and bugs that they were re-deployed to fix XP up - again - and quickly.
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Originally Posted by allan gould
What a wacky world. Are you telling me that the new laptops are built to run Vista only. Then how about running Lunix on them if you DONT like Microsoft?. Get real the customer decides and Im a customer that doesnt like the big brother attitude to OS. Microsoft has a lot to learn about customer relations and programming. Their software is bloated, intrusive and not user friendly as they keep changing the interface so often that you cant find in Word or someother piece of software where to italisize, change margins or backgrounds, delete comments etc etc. How many times have I come back to my PC and found that there is a littler message that says my computer has just rebooted as it downloaded another CRITICAL update and didnt save the bloody work I was writing.
Defend them if you will but this customer and many others think the OS and some of the software sux big time. My opinion but I dont want to know all the nuts and bolts of my PC and its OS I just want to be productive with it and not be snooped on when I connect to the internet or asked all the time if I want to do things. My choice.
Rant off! Have a nice day.
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