At 04:07 PM 8/2/2009, Tim Ellison wrote:
However...The world is moving (being rudely shoved) towards Win7, so
loading it on a second disk or disk partition for testing is
probably a prudent thing to do if you want to be proactive.
Or waste time. I have been in the business of changing systems
since 1973. I have changed mainframe systems with thousands of
users, Commodore systems, Heathkit systems, and PC systems. Here is a good
change strategy:
Everytime you get an easy, CLEAR WINNER upgrade, take it. This is
because there is a risk to falling behind, and the system
accumulating so much change you can never change again, you will need to MOVE.
Then when you have accumulated enough need, move.
Not an upgrade, a new look at computing. Like the new look at radio
you took when you bought a Flex. This should not happen more than
once every eight to twelve years.
I worked with mainframes from 1959 (407) to 1996, MFT/MVT variants
from 1967 to 1976, VM variants from 1974 to 1996.
From the PC side I stayed with HDOS for about four years (1978-82),
DOS from 2.0 to 7, then OS/2, stayed with that till Win 95,98. I
am now on XP, I skipped/will skip Win1-3, ME, Vista, and now
7. That's a 30+ year run on DOS-like systems, a real record for
me. (Looks like MS is not counting ME or Vista, probably a good move!)
My next OS will likely be a Linux version unless one of the long
promised replacements really takes off. There are rumored to be a
couple in preparation, one from Google I think.... And this does
not take much into account the notion of cloud computing and how much
can really be unloaded from the user's machine. Nor does it account
for micro-machines like the iPod.
Back to Windows, my feeling is that MS does not deliver what the
users want: More perf, less hardware (especially WIRES), fewer
bugs. And if MS won't deliver, the users won't upgrade
readily. Which results in lost revenue for Redmond. Boo hoo.
Your comments welcome.
--
Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com
All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html
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