Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Just worth clarifying this.
>
> Not only does it send Microsoft a list of pages you visit,
> but it also enables Microsoft to extend its monopoly and
> use it for search technologies.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ezeey
>
> No wonder Internet Explorer 7 was made a high priority
> update. Security? Security my ass. They just want to spy on
> every Web surfer.
Here is something that is an eye opener from the same
Microsoft Watch site:
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,2010894,00.asp
or http://tinyurl.com/m2y7r
| Thursday, August 31, 2006
| What Is the Business Case for Upgrading to Vista?
| By Mary Jo Foley
| MR. Biz: how are they going to make a business case for
| Vista?
| MJF: that's a good question?. I'm not really sure
| MR. Biz: no matter how much tweaking MS does, it's still
| not going to solve the resource requirements issue
| MR. Biz: the 3D desktop should have been part of Plus
| MR. Biz: vista will NEVER run on a $1000 PC
| MR. Biz: EVER MR. Biz: maybe a $1500 PC, but that one
| doesn't exist Yet
| MR. Biz: there aren't cheap dual cores yet
| MR. Biz: price point is still around $2000
| MJF: u are right
| MR. Biz: basic users don't need this
| MR. Biz: corporate users don't need this
| MR. Biz: the corps are gonna scream bloody Murder
| MR. Biz: they can't afford to put $2000+ desktops on each
| desk
| MR. Biz: and buy all new copies of office to run on It
| MR. Biz: what we're talking about is a TCO of about $3000
| per desktop
| MR. Biz: maybe even more than that
| MR. Biz: that's before support costs
| MR. Biz: that's just the damn software and hardware
| MR. Biz: even if they leave the server infrastructure the
| same
| MR. Biz: which really, they can't
| MR. Biz: so I bet its more like $5000 a desktop
| MR. Biz: never before has a windows release required such a
| major pill to swallow
| MJF: good points
Vista apparently is very hardware intensive. For example,
minimum requirements for Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/sysreqs.mspx
is a 300 MHz Pentium, 128 MB RAM and super VGA graphics.
However, anyone who has run XP on 300 MHz Pentium and/or 128 MB
knows that the system is wheezing seriously with such a
processor and/or limited memory.
Several years ago, I found found an AMD 2.4 GHz, 256 MB system
with XP Home to be wheezing until I added a further 512 MB,
which then sped things up (768 MB total).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/hardware/
vistarpc.mspx
or http://tinyurl.com/a655s
Vista will run on an 850 MHz Pentium with 512 MB memory.
However, those are considered minimal requirements. I see the
hardware inflationary cycle continuing.
This is a positive indicator for Linux to capitalise on, since
it will operate well using less resources. Like an old beer
commercial used to state, "Less filling, more taste."
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