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Ben,

Yes I know that Win FS was dropped last year, but that was an important part of the initial Vista brief.

And airboatr's initial post was about not delivering what they promised.

As for rolling out in business, who knows?

The company that I work for "with offices in 27 countries and more than 9,000 professionals worldwide" according to their website is still using Win2000. But the extra manageability of Vista might just make them change in a year or so - if they need it and don't mind paying for the upgrade.

Ian

Ben Watson wrote:Win FS (The new File system) was droped from Vista Last year, so its hardly news. Also there are two different fron ends, Aero (the fancy one) requires all the fancy hardware, or the standard windows desktop, which pretty much anything will run. The big marketing point for business users is the centralised management and deployment tools which are included as standard, and this is the selling point. I don't think microsoft are expecting big business to run out and buy it, they will get it slowly as they replace their old kit with new hardware which has vista pre installed.

As I recall, the same arguments where used when XP was launched, but XP is miles better than 2000, and despite the bad press, the uptake to the new opperating system was faster than expected. I expect Vista will go the same way.

Thank you for the reply Ben
I may have ///scrach that///
I did go off half cocked about MS mainly because for years
we have been sold OS that have had bugs and out and out
malfunctions in them, I think IMHO that for the profits that
these OS have brought MS we should get a product that
works properly. with all the componets included that were promised.
(many have correlated this arguement with
auto makers and surmise that if an auto manufacture sold an
auto to the public that would have had as many malfuntion,
would be out of buisness)
for instance System restore In Millinium Edition
what a resource hog that was , there was a patch but I gave
up on it and disabled it.
....so thats it in a nut shell ...as far as my cockeyed - ness
now for another ....... if I may
I have a hard time understanding why the foriegn buyers
IE UK Europeans and asian consumers (and the rest of the world)
many of whom are offended by the Americans
as far as the arrogance <which I tend to agree with, ...it wasn't how I was brought up ) of having to do it better and bigger , faster,, why isn't there more resistance to buying a product from one (ie Microsoft) ?
well ......... I guess it's the price of doing buisness
PS
a commentary about doing things faster and what not.......
you know you in the UK start your day about 5 hours earlier
then the east coast in the US .......what about that????

:curse: :curse: :curse: Over achievers!

damn shame ya know
all those comedians out of work
and I had to be an electrician
:sad:

Maybe I should dust off my old Commodore Amiga A1200...

crisso wrote:Maybe I should dust off my old Commodore Amiga A1200...

point taken :think: