I've heard there has been a recent bit of communication between micro$oft and Dell that can be paraphrased as:
Micro$oft: Right, all PC's will now be sold with Vista packages, we're stopping the sale of licenses for XP for new machines. Dell:.... No, No you're fucking not. micro$oft: ... Ok... we're not.
I'd upgrade in a flash if I could get hold of the drivers :-) My new HP Pavalion(sic) has a network card that XP doesn't drive by default. (See saga on my LJ). I suppose I could use sneakernet?...
I suspect XP will be around a little longer than M$ would like us to think. They've realised that the $100 OLPC Laptop and the Asus EEE might just be mildly distruptive to the market and at present are only running Linux. What have M$ done? Tasked a team with producing a version of XP for flash-drive laptops.
Every IT professional I speak to struggles to find anything nice to say about Vista and the usual comment is "Want to simulate the Vista experience? Take half the RAM out of your PC, cut half the cables to your attached devices and de-clock your processor. Job done"
Aero is all very well, but Linux has been able to do most of that 3d malarky for 2 years on half the hardware.
Pet theory? A deal with hardware manufacturers to force hardware upgrades on people with older PC's who really don't need one when XP runs fine thank you.
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I've heard there has been a recent bit of communication between micro$oft and Dell that can be paraphrased as:
Micro$oft: Right, all PC's will now be sold with Vista packages, we're stopping the sale of licenses for XP for new machines.
Dell:.... No, No you're fucking not.
micro$oft: ... Ok... we're not.
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This could of course be rampant arsetalk.)
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XP *Pro* in fact.
And it would be £23.50 well spent!
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My new HP Pavalion(sic) has a network card that XP doesn't drive by default. (See saga on my LJ).
I suppose I could use sneakernet?...
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Meh, must just be me.
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What have M$ done? Tasked a team with producing a version of XP for flash-drive laptops.
Every IT professional I speak to struggles to find anything nice to say about Vista and the usual comment is "Want to simulate the Vista experience? Take half the RAM out of your PC, cut half the cables to your attached devices and de-clock your processor. Job done"
Aero is all very well, but Linux has been able to do most of that 3d malarky for 2 years on half the hardware.
Pet theory? A deal with hardware manufacturers to force hardware upgrades on people with older PC's who really don't need one when XP runs fine thank you.