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Originally Posted by proton45
Just to play the devils advocate here...I think its funny how so many people are hinging their hopes on "Windows 7".
Upon its release "Windows 7" may very well have as many problems as Vista did (has) when it was first released. And (years ago) I remember getting in a heated discussion with some "kid" (on another forum) where he was vehemently defending Vista as the "Ultimate platform of the future". He accused me of being an "old person" who was afraid of the future and he claimed that I couldn't see the superiority of "Vista" because I was "holding on to an aging & flawed platform"... I remember pointing out the that many times (in the past) micro$oft had failed to deliver on what they had promised, and that even with a beta floating around the internet consumers still can't be sure what the final product could be...
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There are so many companies out there that have decided that Vista is not the right choice for their DTS platform - and hope that Windows 7 will be the savior. You have to believe in something
The problem for Microsoft is that the troublesome rollout of the Vista platform has been one of the factors that have revitalized the thin client alternative (hand in hand with the virtualization wave) - and as it is now Citrix, vmWare and Sun can rub their hands on the potential death of the thick client on large corporations... The big losers are naturally the hardware mongers but still, when running in an environment like that you will reduce the number of OS licenses needed. Thats part of the game...
Regarding the hope for Windows 7 vs Vista the big thing is that W7 is really NT6.1 - but for marketing reasons it will be called 7.0 to not get tainted by it's older brother (but it's not the father)... By this I mean that they are not starting from scratch as they did in a lot of areas for Vista. Windows seven is rather Vista SP2 (which is soon coming - I know). I'm also an old man beeing bashed by "kids" that I do not understand the potential of Vista, have not tweaked it right etc