Open source or the Windows root canal?
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| VARs who are trusted by their clients can, for less than the cost of
| a Vista upgrade, quietly leave Windows, delivering new hardware (and
| maybe some keen peripherals), charging what they now charge and
| gaining customer control.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=923
Few Rush Out to Buy New Windows Vista
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| Although the vast majority of people worldwide still run Windows
| machines and use Word to type up documents, the company faces
| growing competition from Linux open-source operating systems
| and an array of free desktop or Web-based programs for word
| processing, e-mail and other services.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/Technology/Microsoft39s-longdelayed-Vista-operating-system-hits-retail-shelves-but-few-rush-out-to-buy/2007/01/30/1169919285754.html
http://tinyurl.com/2gmzou
Vista: Do operating systems matter anymore?
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| * Vista: Microsoft's last hurrah?
|
| On a more emotional level though, operating systems matter
| less than they ever have. If you have any doubt, consider that Apple's
| upcoming iPhone is generating more buzz in tech circles than
| Windows Vista.
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http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/01/vista_do_operat.html?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/yuxbmg
Related:
Allchin's 'Buy a Mac' E-Mail Exposed
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| "I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do
| what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage
| system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this
| problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we
| need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to
| heart. Jim"
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/allchins_buy_a_mac_email_exposed.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/y5cuu6
As Microsoft looks ahead, will Vista be the end of an era?
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| Once installed in the post, Mr Ozzie wrote an internal company
| memo that mapped out the challenges that face Microsoft. The
| message was clear: get Google, get with the internet and wean
| Microsoft off Windows as we know it.
|
| "Through Google's focus they?ve gained a tremendously strong
| position," he said. "[Microsoft] must respond quickly and decisively
| . . . It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know
| it is at risk."
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2494732,00.html
Why Vista might be the last of its kind
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| Imagine this. One of the world's most powerful monopolies puts 10,000
| people to work for five years to create one new product. And nobody
| is really sure if anyone wants it. How's that for a gamble?
|
| That's what we have with Windows Vista, the new computer-operating
| system from Microsoft that debuted last week for businesses and,
| next month, for consumers.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003460386_btview04.html
Vista: Microsoft's Last 'Big Bang' Operating System?
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| Yet for all the design missteps, overly ambitious plans, and
| personnel changes that led to a five-year lag between versions
| of Windows, questions about the future of Microsoft's software
| are top of mind for customers and partners. Ballmer swears to
| never let as much time elapse between Windows versions; the
| question now is how the company can keep churning out
| innovative products on a compressed timetable.
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http://newz.byethost31.com/Microsoft_vista_last_big_bang_operating_system.htm
Is Vista the End of Windows as We Know It?
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| The five-year long march to developing Windows Vista exposed just how
| broken Microsoft's Windows-development process is. It took far too
| long, major features were dropped along the way, and it was wrapped up
| in more red tape than the IRS. That's why I think that Vista will be the
| last of the "big-bang" Windows releases.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/11/is_vista_the_end_of_windows_as.html
Life After Vista: Can Microsoft Retool for Web?
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| In a similar tug of war in the late 1990s, one internal faction
| lobbied to use Microsoft's Internet browser software to radically
| retool Windows for the Internet. But that faction lost out to a
| more PC-centric view of the Windows mission -- an outcome that some
| Microsoft insiders say is one reason the company fell behind in the
| Internet services Google and others now lead.
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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116459728069433263-K0zAOblcMz_...
http://tinyurl.com/yjngqj
Windows Vista the last of its kind
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| Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current,
| monolithic form, according to Gartner.
|
| Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to
| migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through
| hardware-supported virtualisation. "The current, integrated architecture
| of Microsoft Windows is unsustainable - for enterprises and for
| Microsoft," wrote Gartner analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and
| David Mitchell Smith.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=6718
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