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Vista – There is only One choice
LockedPlease let me understand why anyone in any business sector would contemplate moving to Vista. The biggest white elephant the software world will ever see. Ultimately it may even bring about the begining of the demise of Microsoft itself.
Large businesses will baulk at the size of the incremental hardware costs (and the cost of delivering it to the desktop. But above all the draconian licensing costs will be monumental as the product decides its on a new box every time someone conects a new mouse.
Small and medium businesses. The relicencing costs will kill them and the incremental hardware costs will be uneconomic so new PC’s will be required. As they will not do this across the board , support costs will double as support for two incompatible systems will be required, all other products will require double the deployment testing prior to roll out. Ho Ho – No Chance Oh yes and I forgot Quickbooks and a raft of other key packages will not run on Vista .
Gamester. Probably the only guy around who has the hardware to run the thing properly, (Forget MS claims it will take at least double their spec) But why oh why would this individual upgrade to give half his power to Vista , disable 65% of his games and have more driver problems than Fedex.
The good old Home PC User. Will probably need to spend around $500 on new bits so will wait until a new PC is ordered . He will be horrified at the relicencing costs after performing the slightest upgrade, and this reason alone is likely to alienate him forever from microsoft. The Home User will adopt an over my dead body approach
So the bottom line is I cannot see one single sector of the market adopting this OS. After all what do you actually get , eye candy and that is about it. Please do not bore me with the extra security debate. Most of us gave up waiting for MS to address those issues years ago. All sensible organisations, and even home users have got their hardware firewalls, and anti everything software providing the external wall around the OS.
Final assessment, it provides nothing anyone wants, the cost of initial purcahse is high, it causes performance degradation, and the ongoing cost of ownership is astronomic.
Judgement: Mr Gates you have to be joking!