Microsoft with some Cool Vista Announcements
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Well I might be going out on a limb here, but I think this will be MS's last chance to get it right. If they get it right on all fronts, Apple and Linux may well lose out big time. But if they get it wrong, Apple and Linux will continue to erode away MS's dominance as the OS of choice. I mean MS has already stepped down or compromised on a number of fronts; namely security, WinFS and driver signing.
I think that MS have been out of control for the last 6 years, and they certainly lost their direction for some time. I mean think of the companies who have already forked out serious cash as part of their rolling license agreement. And yet, they see the real business benefit coming from Office 2007 and Office server first, neither of which require Vista on the desktop. Why would you have a major Windows release in third place? Does this mean that the days of having a new core OS are over and done with? Just my 0.02 worth
I think that MS have been out of control for the last 6 years, and they certainly lost their direction for some time. I mean think of the companies who have already forked out serious cash as part of their rolling license agreement. And yet, they see the real business benefit coming from Office 2007 and Office server first, neither of which require Vista on the desktop. Why would you have a major Windows release in third place? Does this mean that the days of having a new core OS are over and done with? Just my 0.02 worth
glocktodahead
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name='PV5150' said:
Very good points. :worship: It does seem to me that MS has a lot riding on this one. I personally am rooting for them, so I hope Vista comes out as good as I think it looks
If you can download vista, then would you not be able to pay in American dollars, rather than pay for the more expensive version in pound sterling?
Lastly (I really hope I read this wrong), can people in the US really buy 2 vista premiums for the equivalent of just £25 each? That's just silly, and retail too I assume.
Lastly (I really hope I read this wrong), can people in the US really buy 2 vista premiums for the equivalent of just £25 each? That's just silly, and retail too I assume.
FarFarAway
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Doubt we'll be able to buy US content. If we do we'll have to pay VAT for the privilege
On the strike thing i really hope they get it right. Ive been Windows since i started with PCs and idk if i could handle using something else and starting all over again. They suck but Microshlong FTW. I probably wont be upgrading till SP1 anyways so i should like it as soon as i install. (Beta2 left a nasty taste in my mouth)
Rastalovich
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name='Kempez™' said:
I`d spend a further billion on finding out why it costs my company billions to produce such a thing, cos frankly that`s rediculous. We`re not sending rockets to Saturn here.
The basis for the majority of the codings already exist, to a very arguable extent we`re massaging them. Couple with the fact that the communications needed to be made, and a great deal of the coding exchange is done `internally` - we don`t have that many competitive OSs we need to backup - well we don`t have any accept our own.
New integrated technologies being introduced would be an expensive pursuit I`d imagine, something like a USB3.0 - but the vast amount of companies that wish to have their products future-working with our OS, pretty much are at our disposal as without us they will not have a market to sell to. As we`ve arranged.
If we`re spending billions on anything other than advertising and lawsuits/takeovers, I`d want an itemized account. And donuts aren`t tax deductable.
name='MikeEnIke' said:
Nah, this sorta thing would take a decade to become a reality. There are far too many businesses, households, industries - that have pcs-WinOS laced through their veins, including those using servers that have totally moved away from anything linux related.
It would cost the industry multiples of imaginable funds to switch to a dependant MAC platform, linux less so, but the infastructure would have to be changed again, in some cases back to what they were. With prehaps a few sighs of releaf at some ports, but the whole thing would be an excessive venture.
M$ would have to go bust, with no support for anything like this to even remotely be entertained. Even then, companies will continue to use server2003, win2000, XP as their platforms well into 10 years after Vista is about. Companies would evolve into m$-benefactual-support-agencies, to try and cover up the service that is missing.
Jees, wouldn`t it be a very very rude awakening for the world if m$ was found to be.... I don`t know "tax fiddling"... for the last 15 years or so and the US government shut them down totally.
lol scarey for some executives I can tell u.
equk
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Microsoft's Virtualization Layer?
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There has been a lot of speculation and rumours that something similar to this will feature in vista as part of the anti-piracy windows activation software. Being a virtual layer below the OS, making it untouchable by anything inside the OS.
name='F-Secure' said:
Whitepaper
News Article
There has been a lot of speculation and rumours that something similar to this will feature in vista as part of the anti-piracy windows activation software. Being a virtual layer below the OS, making it untouchable by anything inside the OS.
Well if nothing else they could tell by IP and such, but either way if what kemp said is true, you may be able to get an American mate to buy it for you and such, although I don't know the legality of that or if it would be easy to send to you, or even give you the direct download link.name='ajbrun' said:How will they know where in the world we are? I suppose we'll find out next Tuesday.
name='Splash on HEXUS' said:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?p=974793#post974793
EDIT - just seen lower down on that thread that windows market place is only available for those in the US
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