Comments on: Vista Bashing Now Has Economic Teeth

By: gary bing

gary bing — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:08:13 +0000

Dell has been a big winner here offering their downgrades/upgrades for XP from Vista. Unfortunately the added cost to do this was reprehensible to many (if not all) customers. So indeed neither Microsoft nor Dell is experiencing a warm and fuzzy feeling from their customers as the whole ordeal has left a bad taste in their mouths.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:30:58 +0000

The US government actually won’t use Windows on any systems that have to hold highly sensitive data, the Department of Defense and the military as a whole, are giving Windows the boot and adopting Linux on a lot of their systems, including computers on aircraft carriers.

Windows was never designed to carry anything more critical than Solitaire on it’s shoulders, it might be OK for home users that just listen to music and surf the web (spyware and virus issues aside), but Vista is no good at all when it comes to performance or security-critical uses.

As far as the problems in Vista, Apple actually summed it up quite nicely with the PC Guy singing “Vista Blues”, not that I like Apple, but their commercials are brilliant:

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/apple_getamac_sadsong_extended_20080519_848x480.mov

Right now I happen to be running Ubuntu x86-64, with SELinux Mandatory Access controls, Red Hat’s ExecShield patches, and Ingo Molnar’s Real Time patches, and of course the UFW firewall up and running, and I’m feeling pretty confident in my system.

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:50:41 +0000

Hi Tony Z and Kiko,
Thanks for stoppin by and sharing your thoughts. It is appreciated.

Roy – interesting take on the situation.

Mike –

By: Kiko

Kiko — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:54:23 +0000

whoa roy,
that’s some serious insight you throwed in

By: Tony Z

Tony Z — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:31:52 +0000

While Vista is taking a longer time in adoption, it is on the plate at dozens fo government agencys and most large corporate entities here in the DC Metro area. I have been involved in many testing and rollouts in the last 6 months and it will replace XP, as it should.

Most were waiting on SP1 and the concerns that are on the home issues are not relevant at most businesses. Federal govenment is about to start rolling it out by end of summer.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:44:06 +0000

Note that Microsoft provide details of 24 happy customers!
(They wanted 101, or at least 99 like the Surf adverts, but had to settle for 24. Actually that is about 50% of the people who still have it installed.)

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:00:01 +0000

Vista is one solid system.
The bad publicity is Apple propaganda.
People will find out sooner or later.
Apple is irrelevant. That’s why Microsoft doesn’t respond.

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