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Re: [News] [Rival] CIO.com: "Microsoft Should Toss Vista in the Trash"

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Blog: Should Microsoft Throw Away Vista?
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Throw Vista away. That's what many have now argued that Microsoft should do. 
>| Give it a dignified resting place, as a stepping-stone OS, and come up with a 
>| replacement that's more sensible for enterprise IT. There is historical 
>| precedent in the consumer OS space for such a move; look at Windows ME and 
>| how it became a footnote in Microsoft history.    
>| 
>| "Microsoft should toss Vista in the trash, as the company did with Windows 
>| Millennium eight years ago, then issue a Windows XP Second Edition (as it did 
>| with Windows 98 eight years ago) that capitalizes on some of Vista's key 
>| benefits.  
> `----
> 
> http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1952707477
> 
> 

Except that there aren't really any key benefits.  There is nothing in
Vista which cannot be done in XP which people actually *want* to do.  

The only sane upgrade route now is onto Linux, or as some folk are
doing, onto Mac, but it should be noted that the Mac is not an open
platform.

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