In the news...

[AndreL]

Collax Targets Microsoft Small Business Server
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004265,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

HP Offers Debian Support for its Servers
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004258,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

RealNetworks Brings Windows Media to Linux
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004254,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Virtualization, Road Maps Lead the Way at LinuxWorld
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2004077,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Linspire Launches Freespire Linux Software Suite
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2004074,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

Microsoft Security website shows Apple Mac and says ‘you’re clean’ :tongue:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10546/
Microsoft's website home page of "Microsoft Security" (an oxymoron if there ever was one), shows and Apple Mac next to the caption "Click. You're clean." MS, if you're going to pretend to be serious about security, shouldn't you use a picture of a Dell or something instead of reminding people about the truly secure Apple Macintosh? .

[benjaminq]

MS-Mac: Hilarious! But maybe they want to demonstrate that they finally ported Vista to the Mac ... *lol*

Where is the speed of my PC gone? Hasta la Vista ...

Benjamin

[Red*Fox]

windows vista is gona cost microsoft alot of money........xp is fine for alot of people..but u know what happend when u try to improve on one thing....u try to improve on everything, its going to suck alot more cpu out of most systems. Right now people arent gona switch to vista cuz Xp is still the most common thing today, and im sure some people are just as fine with xp. vista does have an inproved look but it sucks on the cpu like a leech.

[AndreL]

windows vista is gona cost microsoft alot of money........xp is fine for alot of people..but u know what happend when u try to improve on one thing....u try to improve on everythinghihi! and we know what happens when Microsoft tries to "improve" on everything... :tongue:

Meanwhile, like the turtle/or tortoise ( I never know which one is right) Linux is slowing, and steadily, moving... to the finish line! :smiley4:
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[benjaminq]

Linux is constantly moving and the development is carried out in a rather decentralized way, and this is why it works. It is a self-organizing system, this is why it is possible to handle the complexity it does handle, from routers to super-computers and everything in between.

Microsoft designs products from scratch, be it for the Pocket-PC for mobile phones and to a certain extent this development model has its benefit. It works very well up to a certain complexity. Windows XP was allowed to undergo a certain evlution as well, beginning from NT. But the problem with XP is now, that it always had to preserve a very high degree of backward compatibility and this is where NOW the limits show: you don't have too much room for innovation and you tend to be stuck to ageing architectural concepts. Therefore Vista had to be constructed from scratch.

The problem with Longhorn was that this project simply utterly failed due to the complexity that cannot any more be handled with a rather centralized development approach. So Longhorn became Vista and Vista is told to be nothing else than a very resource hungry BIG service pack 3 for XP. I guess they tried to recycle the good or working parts of XP and made them work together with at least some of their Longhorn-stuff.

Some essential features (like WinFS) went down the drain and Vista is barely more than a very nice new GUI for the average Desktop user. There is surely some really good stuff underneath, but average Joe won't ever see the benefit. For him XP SP2 is just about perfect.

Then I guess there will be a major fiasko with the different versions Vista will be shipped in. As can be seen with Linux, everything more than two versions is perceived as overly complicated (500 Distributions? or even the major 6 Versions always cause quite a bit of confusion to newbies).

Finally, everyone will wait how good Vista will perform out in the wild. So the adoption will be painfully slow, especially when you cansider that many people would have to buy a faster machine just for running the operating system.

I guess these are also pretty much the reasons why their chief software architect says goodbye and uses his money for good.

BEnjamin

[AndreL]

You're giving me some news here!!!! Bill Gates said "Goodbye" to Micosoft? True that I don't follow much MS news these days but... (???)

[fos]

Bill is still in charge, they are just playing musical chairs with some of their titles.

fos....