You said it: I will believe it when I see it. I have NO plans to replace XP with any other M$ product. My 03 servers are fine. I love the mac books! Fast, light, sleek, no 2 -3 lb power supply. You get your choice of OSX of XP at boot, or running XP in parallels.
With OSX, there is one version to support. Vista has how many versions? server has 4 versions Sheesh! then there is 2 verions of xp and all the subversions: mobile and all the crap. Tell me again that a Mac costs more? I simply don't believe it. Mac shops do not have an army of PC support staff. They just don't need it. What costs more, a $100 car that needs constant intervention and $$$$$ or a $200 car that just runs? (MB content) Gartner is late. I called this 2 years ago. TO their credit, M$ has released some products that make a good case for staying on their platform in the corporate world, but in comparison to XP/ Office 2003, MS is looks bad compared to OSX and LInux At 12:48 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote: >Yawn, they haven't heard of Windows 7. Its in development and is >purported to have a kernal size more like Windows 98 but on the NT >type OS standard. Goodbye bloatware. > >Apparently Microsoft is listening and Vista will be the Windows Me >of its generation. > >I know I know, I'll believe it when I see it. > >-Curt > >Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:22:59 -0400 >From: "Allan Streib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [MBZ] OT: Gartner predicts the collapse of Windows >To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > >http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9076698 > > > >Pretty much say that Windows has become too bloated and unmanageable, > it >will not be able to keep up in the future without pretty dramatic >changes. > >Allan >-- >1983 300D > > between 0000-00-00 and 9999-99-99 >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com Loren Faeth _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
