Goodbye Vista, Hello XP
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| As Vista is the most up to date version of Windows and supposedly the most
| secure, more people felt that they had to upgrade to Windows Vista. But all
| that is about to change when Microsoft release their latest service pack
| (Service Pack 3) and this is not for Vista, it is for Windows XP.
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http://www.gpearce.co.uk/news/security/goodbye-vista-hello-xp.html
Reviews of Windows Vista: The Beginning of the End....
,----[ Quote ]| There are several excellent reasons most of us are completely
uninterested,
| if not a bit frightened, in making the switch to Vista. However, there is at
| least one reason that is equally, if not more, important than any other. Take
| the immutable fact that many programs and hardware simply aren't compatible
| with the new operating system. Perhaps the most important concerns
| surrounding Microsoft's latest Frankenstein are the potential privacy issues.
|
| The FTC and record labels such as Sony and BMG, are pressing consumers into a
| strict government and mega corporation regulated market controlism that
| strips citizens of virtually all of their personal rights; Microsoft has
| always been right there by the FTC and record companies' sides in its
| innovative software control through its OSs. Take Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, for
| example (both anti-consumer technologies are supposedly present deep within
| Vista). If a consumer wants to protect his or her investment, well, sorry;
| Vista may not let you. XP has a similar restriction in its OS, but not nearly
| as deadly as the "new and improved" Vista.
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http://www.helium.com/tm/573748/beginning-endthere-several-excellent
Related:
Linux Says Bye-bye Windows XP!
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| It's been one of those months! My computer crashed taking with it crucial
| XP system files. This is the 3rd crash in the last year and I've finally
| had enough with the Windows operating system!
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http://www.richtam123.com/wp/?p=20
Windows Vista, The best thing that ever happened to Linux?
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| Millions of these units have been ordered by Countries such as
| Nigeria and Libya and pretty soon there will be millions of
| children around the world with Linux as their first operating
| system.
|
| In stark contrast Microsoft have just released Windows Vista,
| probably the most resource hungry Operating System ever, for
| the PC platform.
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http://www.otezz.net/windows-vista-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-linux/
Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft
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| Despite the heightened competition over the last two quarters from
| Microsoft-Novell and a move by Oracle to undercut Red Hat on the cost of Red
| Hat Linux support service, Red Hat has reported double-digit growth in
| revenue and an increase in profit.
|
| “The success of Red Hat has been able to validate the future potential for
| open source software,” Szulik says.
|
| Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC’s Gillen,
| because there isn’t as much of the legacy Windows technology to have to
| displace.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072507-linux-microsoft-gains.html?page=3
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