Vista flaw could haunt Microsoft
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| Microsoft wants a bigger piece of Oracle and IBM's database business, but
| an oversight in its new operating system could cost the company plenty.
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http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/14/magazines/business2/microsoft_vista.biz2/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
This is good news to Open Source database and GNU/Linux. It will hinder the
adoption of Vista and encourage migration of databases (reasonable choices
for a stack), if not O/S as well. Business seek to escape
database-associated lockins as awareness is improved due to harsh
experience.
Related:
Life with Vista - Is this dogfood really for the dogs?
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| I'm an absolute freak when it comes to .NET technologies. My blog
| is called the ".NET Addict", so it should be pretty obvious that
| the day Vista's RTM build came out, I downloaded it and installed
| it on every Vista-capable machine I had in my possession. I've
| been using Vista for several weeks now and I've come to a couple
| of conclusions that I think might startle and shock some of you...
|
| # Vista is not ready for primetime. By that I mean that Vista still
| feels like a beta. That's right. It has so many compatibility
| problems with existing applications that running anything other
| than stuff from Microsoft that specifically says "for Vista Build
| XXXX" makes me feel like I'm taking my life into my own hands.
|
| 1. Games - don't even get me started...
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| 2. Visual Studio 2005 - I can't find the words to express the irony...
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| 3. Virtual PC - worthless. Don't even attempt on Vista.
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http://dotnetaddict.dotnetdevelopersjournal.com/vista_dogfood.htm
Visual Studio vs. Vista: What's going on here?
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| * Visual Basic 6.0 (supported)
| * Visual Studio .NET 2002 (not supported)
| * Visual Studio .NET 2003 (not supported)
| * Visual Studio 2005 (supported, but will have "compatibility issues"
| until some nebulous set of post-SP1 fixes ships)
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http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=42426
Windows Vista: Work In Progress
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| Already, the list of non-compatible applications or hardware is fairly
| long. Microsoft's own Vista updates add to the number of third-partyp
| atches on which businesses will have to conduct compatibility testing.
| The burden is yet another reason to see slow business deployments in
| the early months following Windows Vista's release.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/windows_vista_work_in_progress.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
SQL Server 2005 SP1 won't work with Vista
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| It's no secret that a number of applications, including
| several of Microsoft's own, are not going to work properly
| with Windows Vista when the product ships.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=71
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
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| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2237
Lack of Internal Talks at Microsoft, Google
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| Maybe my "Microsoft's Entertainment Domination" theory was a bit
| premature. Apparently, the Zune MP3 player isn't flying off shelves
| and now it turns out that the Zune is incompatible with Microsoft'
| latest Windows Vista operating system. Amazing how a disconnect like
| this can occur within an organization. Software start-ups are taking
| advantage of the lowered development costs and the speedy development
| time -- and forcing large software organizations to speed up their
| own development cycles, but in the process, the large organizations
| are fumbling to communicate effectively amongst their departments.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/lack-of-internal-talks-at-microsoft-google/
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