Correction: Ed has acquired TC.......Technology penetration lag time has shortened.:hehe:
Adding Fuel to the Fire.....
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Correction: Ed has acquired TC.......Technology penetration lag time has shortened.:hehe:
Not by choice.......
I still run '06 primarily, as I find the early advancements in TC to not be worthwhile yet.
Ed
Dont you mean NT4 WORKSTATION AND SERVER?
win 2000 was just a rehash of NT4 with a new look and
Native USB support
And thats what made 2000 more useable than NT4. Perhaps not as stable as NT4 but it did support a lot more hardware than NT4.
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Phil
Hello
Also Windows NT had the most Service Packs then any other version of Microsoft Windows.
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Ahsan
North American Trainz Team Beta Tester
What I find amazing is that Vista requires a gig of RAM and a hefty graphics card to look pretty, while I can run Compiz Fusion on a system with a grand total of 32 megabytes of video memory and not have any lag at all.
Microsoft can learn some things from free software...
Microsoft can learn some things from free software...
Two things - The Windows series continues to add more and more "functionality". Microsoft feels that they must accommodate every gadget and process that is dreamed up. The result is a bloated error prone system. There is no way to effectively debug it and thus the decision is to make it reasonably clean and then patch and patch >>>>.
The other motivator for new OS's is cash flow. Windows releases are a major money maker. Thus the new stuff above is added to justify the new higher price which also is higher because of the cost of gasoline. However, this cycle has produced resistance as many customers do not see the rational to spend well over $100 for some pretty OS GUI. They spent considerable time with a maturing XP and see no real functional reason to change. So, Microsoft is not seeing the golden cash input as they did from past releases.
As mentioned above few customers who do buy Vista really look at the real cost as they find that various upgrades ($$$) are need to make it run well. So for some the new OS with little real new functionality, can cost some poor soul $1,000!
Dick
XP
The other motivator for new OS's is cash flow. Windows releases are a major money maker. Thus the new stuff above is added to justify the new higher price which also is higher because of the cost of gasoline
. However, this cycle has produced resistance as many customers do not see the rational to spend well over $100 for some pretty OS GUI. They spent considerable time with a maturing XP and see no real functional reason to change. So, Microsoft is not seeing the golden cash input as they did from past releases.As mentioned above few customers who do buy Vista really look at the real cost as they find that various upgrades ($$$) are need to make it run well. So for some the new OS with little real new functionality, can cost some poor soul $1,000!
Dick
XP
I suspect that the vast majority of sales of Windows are as pre-installed copies on new computers.
Isn't the real impetus for ever more bloated versions of Windows coming from the hardware manufacturers, desperate to sell new more powerful machines into a largely saturated market?
John
Isn't the real impetus for ever more bloated versions of Windows coming from the hardware manufacturers, desperate to sell new more powerful machines into a largely saturated market?
John
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I Agree. But the Hardware seems to got ahead of the software. No operating system or software seems to take full advantage of dual or quad core CPUs just yet. Hopefully someone will correct me if I am wrong.
Boobless_ed
Will this do?
I think Vista was just a ploy to sell more copies of XP.
Accipiter777
New member
"Vista is the future only because Microsoft is giving consumers no choice, slapping Vista by default on new PCs. It's a "success" only in situations where people have no alternative."
Right on the money...
Right on the money...
New tests have revealed that Windows XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1. Vista's first service pack, to be released early next year, is intended to boost the operating system's performance. However, when Vista with the Service Pack 1 (SP1) beta was put through benchmark testing by researchers at Florida-based software development company Devil Mountain Software, the improvement was not overwhelming, leaving the latest Windows iteration outshined by its predecessor.
Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP's 35 seconds.
Vista's performance with the service pack increased less than 2 percent compared to performance without SP1--much lower than XP's SP3 improvement of 10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.
In response to the test, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that although the company understood the interest in the service packs, they are "still in development" and will continue to evolve before their release. "It has always been our goal to deliver service packs that meet the full spectrum of customer needs," the spokesperson said.
If SP1 does not evolve sufficiently, it could be another setback for Vista, with many businesses waiting to adopt the operating system until the service pack is released.
A year after its launch, only 13 percent of businesses have adopted Vista, according to a survey of IT professionals.
Microsoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would have liked. "Frankly, the world wasn't 100 percent ready for Windows Vista," corporate vice president Mike Sievert said in a recent interview at Microsoft's partner conference in Denver.
Microsoft has not done enough to make users aware of the benefits of Vista, NPD analyst Chris Swenson said at the conference. "The problem is that there are a lot of complex new features in Vista, and you need to educate consumers about them...much like Apple educating the masses about the possibilities of the iPhone or focusing on a single feature or benefit of the Mac OS in the Mac-versus-PC commercials. Microsoft should be educating the masses about the various new features in a heavy rotation of Vista in TV, radio, and print ads. But the volume of ads (for Vista) has paled in comparison to the ads run for XP."
XP has proved to be more popular than its younger sibling, with the first six months of U.S. retail sales of box copies of Vista 59.7 percent below those of XP's in the equivalent period after its release.
Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP on new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However, the pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that Microsoft has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.
According to Microsoft, sales of Vista have been picking up, with the software giant reporting 88 million units sold.:hehe:
Steve
Vista, both with and without SP1, performed notably slower than XP with SP3 in the test, taking over 80 seconds to complete the test, compared to the beta SP3-enhanced XP's 35 seconds.
Vista's performance with the service pack increased less than 2 percent compared to performance without SP1--much lower than XP's SP3 improvement of 10 percent. The tests, run on a Dell XPS M1710 test bed with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 1GB of RAM, put Microsoft Office 2007 through a set of productivity tasks, including creating a compound document and supporting workbooks and presentation materials.
In response to the test, a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that although the company understood the interest in the service packs, they are "still in development" and will continue to evolve before their release. "It has always been our goal to deliver service packs that meet the full spectrum of customer needs," the spokesperson said.
If SP1 does not evolve sufficiently, it could be another setback for Vista, with many businesses waiting to adopt the operating system until the service pack is released.
A year after its launch, only 13 percent of businesses have adopted Vista, according to a survey of IT professionals.
Microsoft admits that the launch has not gone as well as the company would have liked. "Frankly, the world wasn't 100 percent ready for Windows Vista," corporate vice president Mike Sievert said in a recent interview at Microsoft's partner conference in Denver.
Microsoft has not done enough to make users aware of the benefits of Vista, NPD analyst Chris Swenson said at the conference. "The problem is that there are a lot of complex new features in Vista, and you need to educate consumers about them...much like Apple educating the masses about the possibilities of the iPhone or focusing on a single feature or benefit of the Mac OS in the Mac-versus-PC commercials. Microsoft should be educating the masses about the various new features in a heavy rotation of Vista in TV, radio, and print ads. But the volume of ads (for Vista) has paled in comparison to the ads run for XP."
XP has proved to be more popular than its younger sibling, with the first six months of U.S. retail sales of box copies of Vista 59.7 percent below those of XP's in the equivalent period after its release.
Microsoft has had to allow PC manufacturers to continue to sell XP on new PCs, setting a deadline for the last sale at January 31. However, the pressure from manufacturers and consumers has been so great that Microsoft has been forced to extend the deadline another five months, until June.
According to Microsoft, sales of Vista have been picking up, with the software giant reporting 88 million units sold.:hehe:
Steve