Windows Vista Simply Can't Catch a Break Maybe with SP1
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 14.12.2007
At over one year since Windows Vista was released to manufacturing and after it shipped to businesses in November 2006, and at almost 12 months since the operating system hit the shelves, it simply cannot catch a break.
The last statistics related to the market performance of the latest Windows client to come out of Redmond pointed to in excess of 88 million licenses shipped to the company's channel partners. At the same time, data published by market metrics firm Net Applications points to the fact that Vista is right on track to hit the 10% market share/100 million copies by the end of 2007. Still, with the sole exception of Microsoft, the general perception is that Vista's uptake in the corporate environment is suffering drastically.
Businesses are notably slow at adopting new technology, and as Vista requires a healthy underlying infrastructure, companies generally synchronized migration to the new software with their next hardware upgrade. At the same time, the first service pack for Vista is regarded as a sign of maturity, and there are examples of large corporations, such as Intel and Dell that have postponed jumping to Vista well after SP1. While Microsoft gave strong indications that it was in fact selling Vista in the corporate environment, independent studies come to illustrate the contrary, revealing that although the adoption of the operating system will pick up in the coming year, the rate of uptake will still be low.
"That's been a disappointment. Our customer surveys tell us customers are adopting at a slower rate than we -- or anyone else -- thought. Even those that have licenses and can move quickly are not. Our CIO has been using Vista now for a long time. His comment is that it would take three or four hours for every user to learn Vista. He thinks it will be a big investment. For end user customers, the investment is not just in teaching Vista, but in new hardware to go along with it. It will continue to be adopted, but it's a slower base than anyone thought it would be a couple years ago", revealed John Edwardson, chairman and CEO of CDW, as cited by Channel Web.
In this context, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 will be a turning point for the operating system. Microsoft has just made available a public version of Vista SP1 RC1, but has failed to deliver an accurate deadline for the delivery of the refresh. And most of all, the Redmond company has constantly downplayed the relevance of SP1, gearing users directly to Vista or to Windows Update. In this regard, Microsoft has managed to create the perception that SP1 will not turn a new page for Vista.
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windows vista rip!!!
most tv shows and movies blatantly advertise apple computers through product placement
whenever an actor is using a laptop.
but the few shows/movies where windows is
obviously displayed on the screen, it's always xp. why doesn't microsoft just get
screenshots of vista put on the prop monitors? sure would make vista seem at least
relatively more mainstream and usable in everyday computing more so than what a lot of
people think.
chew on that lol
i agree with you on that comment...but to be honest ive never seen a movie yet that has
windows on it...its always a mac
well, what you see often is a skinned windows version. it's in the movies you just dont
see it directly. but ok, majority obviously use linux and of course mac
i saw windows in the anime full metal panic
no way!!
what you see is apple placing thier logo everywhere, especially
laptops (with the glowing apple in plain view.
windows desktop shots are much
more frequent than appple, its just that we're used to it and sowe don't pickup on it.
i'd say the ratio is 3:1 - ms over apple in multimedia.
vista users, get over it!!!
you're all guinea pigs on a microsoft's big
experiment.
god, this is even the first time i've ever heard of reliability, stability and
performance packs for any operating system...
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on the same night me and ecko did discuss and take the decision
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-
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marct
"about freaking time too, what a freaking
muppet"
obviously you'd never used a mac before. in mac, apple also post reliability, stability
and performance packs in their system update.
oh wait... linux has these
update too... or just about every os in the market also has these updates as well.
regardless if it's a logo sticker or an actual computer being used, product placement
isn't meant to be subtle. people who watch actively notice these differences.
the best example i can give you is in the us version of the sitcom the office, where all
the computers used in that workplace are so obviously running xp. it's that much more
significant since all those computers are real ones used by the actors to blog.
hahaha, ok i forgot to mention microsoft operating systems ;)
as of today, i am resigning as keznews moderator.
i like keznews forum but
there are many reasons and facts that make me want out as moderator.
with all
that occured lately, i'm getting tired of making any effort for someone who does not care
at all about keznews.
last sunday, the forum was almost destroyed until kez
restore a backup and post this:
kez wrote:
i restore the forum database
from backup, temporary remove all moderators and ban odeeee.
i was not here in
last few days, because i was not online..
but now i will be here more often.
and i am preparing several changes..
here is the first fact kez lie about ... he
mention not being there last few days but in fact he has not been there at all for more
than 1 month.
on the same night me and ecko did discuss and take the decision
to pm kez and request him to do changes and keep his promises.
we did request
him this:
point needing to be changed:
- communicate with your moderator
much more than ignoring them
- reply to your pm instead of ignoring them
- being
much more active
- give moderator more power to deal with the behavior of person like
odeeee
- restrick/ban post mods
- remove all of a users post or just move them.
- be mature and take decision for the forum (new moderator like uxrr6 !!!!)
-
stop lying and be honest
- make changes - install phpbb3 as soon as possible
i did resent the same pm 3 times since sunday ... he did receive the first 2 pm but
he did not got the latest 2 ... meaning he has not been online on keznews at all for close
to 72 hours... for someone saying he would be more active how do you call that...
he did stop registration on monday and so far he did not try to find any solution.
so when someone does not care about keznews, do you feel like making any effort
for him ? answer his simple, no
so i will move on and start being more active
on another place where someone make me admin of. i won't tell the place publicly on
keznews but if people did enjoy the work i made on keznews and want to join a place where
the admin will care about the needs of the members or if you just want to keep contact
with me, you just have to pm me telling me what you want to know and i will answer you the
best i can.
marct
"about freaking time too, what a freaking
muppet"
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