[AccessD] Interesting Laptop / Vista commentary

Right now, the good folk at M$ are competing with themselves.  They want to 
do away with XP, but due to the poor quality of Vista, vendors have had to 
offer XP as an option.  There are many folks who want nothing to do with 
Vista at this point... myself among them.

M$ has the nasty habit of releasing software long before it's ready for 
prime time... and let the unfortunate users be their Beta testers.

If they don't get their act together one of these days they will begin (and 
that's generous) to loose business to other platforms.  Biggest hurdle is 
the enormous embedded base of M$ products.

Don B.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
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Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Interesting Laptop / Vista commentary


> Yes John: That article is sad but the true... My current lap top, that 
> does
> have 2GB of RAM on it is my only Desktop (top of the line Toshiba as of 
> last
> spring) that could run Vista and the graphics is still second tier.
>
> During the last 6 months I have been installing OSs on a variety of 
> systems,
> for a variety of continental wide chains and banking groups. Without
> exception they are all using Windows2000 and sometimes Linux. The 
> company's
> senior IT people do not even trust XP and merely laugh when Vista is 
> brought
> up and suggest it is no more than a pretty but unstable desk-top toy.
>
> I hope MS gets their business together before they find themselves 
> competing
> one on one with various flavours of Linux. I use to be able to make a fair
> bit selling MS network installs but no more.
>
> Jim
>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 9:35 AM
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>
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2222303,00.asp?kc=EWKNLBOE120107STR1
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
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