View Single Post
Old 06-08-2008, 04:55 PM   #125 (permalink)
dangel
Better paid than Directhex :)
 
dangel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Cambridge, UK
Posts: 5,617
Thanks: 177
Thanked 142 Times in 122 Posts
dangel's system
Re: MS tricks die-hard XP users into liking Vista

It's not that corps aren't on board - it's that corps never are on board with a new version of Windows until way down the line. Many skip a generation too. This makes sense - a: it's better to wait for fixes and b: it's a big investment in product and training (if you're talking about 1000's of seats).

What mojave is all about is perception that Vista is a bad product - because (hand on heart) it really isn't. It's solid, reliable and does quite a lot of things a whole lot better than it's predecessor. What really did for it though was the new driver model and the inabilty of large third parties to get their drivers working. The former was a damn good technical decision, but as it turned out a bad political one. The knock on effect will be that Seven, when it launches, will probably use the same (mature) Vista drivers and everybody will go "oohhh it's much better than Vista was!". Sigh.

I don't object to people sticking to XP - what i object to is ill-informed ****e being posted about Vista. Mojave exposed ignorance. Nothing more or less. Whether that's also willful is another matter - because that's stupid. The bottom line is: XP is a good OS, and so's Vista (in fact, it's better). The sooner the latter becomes accepted by some the better (and that's not me pointing a finger so don't have a benny).

Yes MS would love you to upgrade - it makes them cash after all - but I don't want you to. It's up to you. Just don't force me to read how terrible Vista is unless you can substantiate that opinion versus "omfg vista iz sooooo ****tttteee"


To be clear - there are perfectly *good* reasons for not upgrading - cost, "it does the job", there's no Vista drivers for my steam-driven printer from the early 1900's etc. It's down to personal decision Oui?

Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
System 001: Asus P5Q Deluxe, Q6600 @ 3.0ghz, D-Tek FuZion V2 CPU Block, GTX280, Alphacool GPU Block, 4GIG Corsair 6400 DDR2 RAM CL4 @ 800mhz, Corsair HX1000, Dell 2001FP, Logitech 5.1, Seagate 7200.10 320gb x 2 (RAID 0), 500 GIG 7200.9 (backups), Antec 1200 case, Thermochill 120.3 rad, Vario Pump, Vista Ult 64/XP Pro 32 [main] WORK IN PROGRESS
System 002: 4200X2, ASROCK (my ass-rocks!) 939 uATX MB, ATI1650 (passive), Zalman 500W psu, IIyama 17" LCD, £7's worth of 5.1 speakers (they rock) XP Pro [wife/server]
System 003: AOpen 1557 GLSLaptop, ATI 9600 64mb, 1.5 GIG of DDR2700 memory, 60gig fujitsu HD 8mb cache, Intel Wireless and it's great! XP Pro [main lappy]
System 004: ASUS A8N Premium, 4200 X2, 2 GIG Corsair, Silverstone HTPC case, XP120 cooler, 8600GTS (passive), Samsung 500GIG, MCE Remote, Samsung 40" LCD (87BDX) via HDMI Vista Home Premium (32) [media centre]
System 005: 7" Asus Eee PC 701-B Intel Mobile, 2GB DDR2, 4GB Solid State HDD, Linux Deleted - XP to replaced it!, Black [toy]
Work System 001: HP supplied Quad Core Q6600, 2gb DDR 2, 400gb SATA RAID 0, 250gb SATA backup drive, nVidia 8800GTS 640mb, Dell 2001FP, iiyama VM Pro 451 Vista Ult 64/Vista Ult 32 SERVICE PACK 1 [main work system]

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Directory Opus 9 rocks! (click here) Opera Ad-Blocker (click here)


Last edited by dangel; 06-08-2008 at 05:07 PM..
dangel is offline   Reply With Quote