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Vista to be released in October come Hell or high water.
hm_murdock:
Yep.
http://winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ready.asp
I think it's bad for them, great for us. It'll probably suck.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Oh I hope it will suck so much everyone will wake up and install a real OS ... well, I'm probably being really optimistic ... everyone will buy it like mad and love it too.
GenuineAdvantage:
I don't even care anymore. The more I use a different OS the more I come to think of how unlikely that they will just suddenly disappear off the face of the Earth because of Windows. It's even clear now that MSCK actively tried to do this for years, and they haven't succeeded up to now. In fact Linux and other desktop OSes are growing. That's really all I care about -that there will be other OSes that will be sufficient. So who cares when or if Vista pops up. I predict that on the desktop most of what it will be is a platform for all the latest DirectX 10 games.
davidnix71:
The computer industry seems to have hit a wall. Dell is in trouble with lower earnings, exploding batteries, an SEC probe and is being forced to use AMD chips. M$ upped its stock buyback from $16B to $36B by 2011, and Intel has much lower profits than last year and laid off 1000 managers. Sun MSys laid off people, too.
Even Apple agreed today to pay CTI $100M to settle patent infringement issues over iPod music navigation.
If they release Vista in October, maybe there will be enough time to get out a service pack by Christmas.
The Republicans will lose a lot of seats in November, unless there is another 9/11 and they declare martial law, so the upheaval in the economy will probably continue into next year.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: davidnix71 ---The computer industry seems to have hit a wall. Dell is in trouble with lower earnings, exploding batteries, an SEC probe and is being forced to use AMD chips. M$ upped its stock buyback from $16B to $36B by 2011, and Intel has much lower profits than last year and laid off 1000 managers. Sun MSys laid off people, too.
--- End quote ---
+5 Insightful :D
Honestly, it's about time the computer industry hit a wall! Only the very cheapest Dell Desktop machines have less than a gig of RAM. Very few people need a gig of ram for christ sake!
The industry is all about perpetual upgrading and has been for a long time.
/smiles down at his Athlon XP 2600+, 256 Mb RAM machine
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