Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Vista Upgrade + Corporate Fleets = Costly Waste of Time
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> | Beyond the overall UI that was deemed to require
> | re-training for non-technical/novice users, there
> | were absolutely no compelling features from an administration
> | /operations /management perspective to justify upgrading nor
> | are there any compelling reasons to upgrade from a user/usability
> | perspective with existing fleets.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Windows Vista - Wow! Nobody needs this...
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/implementation/archives/vista-upgrade-corporate-fleets-costly-waste-of-time-14324
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> Microsoft Continues Long March Down...
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> | No surprises today as Microsoft (MSFT) continues the long march
> | down. This is the fifth day down for the bellwether stock despite
> | efforts put into to train and teach users on the pros of windows
> | vista and how it can work in tandem with the rest of Microsoft's
> | products for the benefit of small businesses.
> `----
>
>
http://sharemarketcomments.blogspot.com/2007/02/microsoft-continues-long-march-down.html
> http://tinyurl.com/yq6p59
Microsoft is really caught between the rock and the hardplace. In the early
days, they rejected security, because marketing told them that people
didn't want to jump through hoops to use their computers. Of course, the
total lack of security together with the Internet has meant that a lot of
people have suffered badly at the hands of the "black hat coders". The
Internet itself is also suffering badly with much of the bandwidth being
taken up by spam, viruses, worms and general malware.
Microsoft floated the idea with Longhorn of rewriting their product from the
ground up, this time with security in mind. I'm sure that the marketing
department got the feedback that a fundamental change in their OS would
make Linux more interesting. After all, if you have to change all your
applications, then you might as well go for free ones.
Now Microsoft has had to use the same old broken code base and try and bolt
some security onto the top. This isn't going to help much as a lot of the
existing holes are still there. Seeing as there is a lot of new code in
Vista, it won't take long before a whole bunch of new holes are also found.
This will probably leave the users of Vista in a worse state than using XP,
if that is at all possible.
So, Microsoft are damned if they do and damned if they don't and the market
is beginning to understand that. I guess that it comes back to the old
saying. Software design is like a Thomas Hardy novel. You will eventually
be punished for your errors in judgement.
Ian
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