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when will next M$ OS be available?
- Thread starter mfhboy
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Quote from mfhboy:
And how long will you guys OBSERVE the new OS before you buy it?
I looked at it .... While its nice i dont see any reason to switch over to $soft for server or workstations based upon the beta. The Beta's I have seen appear to be of higher quality than past process cycles from $soft but they are really is not anything radically new that would compel us to switch back at this point. $soft would need to radically change their pricing on the OS and all the "add-on" application stack (which is where they really sock it to you on cost) before we would seriously reconsider them, and they would need to change the entire architecture of the interaction of their application stack to the OS - well they have partially done this but not enough.
In past cycles we always waited until the release, and then we tested fully that build: if it passed our tests we might migrate a server or two for further evaluation - clients(workstations) typically waited until the first major service pack/bugfix
Linux - we use Fedora Core with some custom management software - still is as good or better. and has all the features and performance we need.
For helpful facts: read here:Quote from mfhboy:
And how long will you guys OBSERVE the new OS before you buy it?
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55573
That would put us at about 2009-2010.Quote from gnome:
WinXP came out in 2001 (?). SP2 was mid-2004.
Will anybody still be running M$ by that time? Perhaps only the laggards that stepped up from win95?
http://www.computing.co.uk/forbes/news/2142257/microsofts-midlife-crisis
"Luctor et Emergo"Quote from gnome:
Probably just us poor unfortunates whose market packages will only run on Windows....
This is the symbol of Zeeland in the Netherlands meaning:
I fight and I will stay on top of it.
PS: that's what I have been doing for a couple of years now and finally I got completely rid of that misery. Gnome, I sincerely hope you're not going to keep on suffering till 2010.
Quote from nononsense:
That would put us at about 2009-2010.
Will anybody still be running M$ by that time? Perhaps only the laggards that stepped up from win95?
http://www.computing.co.uk/forbes/news/2142257/microsofts-midlife-crisis
Actually $soft is reforming the way they build the OS - see todays WSJ article for some details.
This success means that there will be faster and fewer bugfixes - this idea is partially validated from what I have seen thus far .....
Still, the quality of our Linux installations is, by our analysis, much higher than $soft. Perhaps their modified approach will narrow the gap ... I will be watching.