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Originally Posted by mazex
That's a role I love too  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 |
Its kind of "funny" that the personal choice of sticking with a stable (proven?) operating platform (and waiting to see how things pan-out with Vista) is seen as "short sighted" thinking. I think its odd that a "forward thinker" would just accept micro$oft marketing at "their word", and would "jump-on-the-bandwagon" before doing research on the final product (in RW conditions). I guess that "thinking young" means that you believe the hype and you run before looking...experience has taught me that even though I have the green light I should still look both ways before entering traffic.