I am still deploying XP if customer cannot afford high end hardware. But Vista business in good new hardware didn't give me any problem also for customers using AS400 or SAP in WAN Corporates
GuidoElia HELPPC -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Jon B. Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: sabato 10 maggio 2008 18.09 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: RE: R: Why XP is doomed There's some benefit but I've not seen any reason to upgrade. I've used Vista exclusively for over a year now and as soon as school gets out and I get a bit of downtime I'm slashing it and going back to XP. The new features are just not worth the performance drain. Even if I were deploying it on the big new PCs with tons of RAM and processor I'd rather my applications used those resources, not my OS. Jon Lewis -----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: R: Why XP is doomed And besides being on the "latest" version of Windows, what are you getting out of your addition investments? Is there something you can do on Vista that you cant on XP? On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:50 AM, HELP_PC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you are right . Windows Xp was sucking a lot on a PentiumIII > 1ghz machine with 256MB RAM, where Win 98 was really "fast". > I am now deploying Q6600 or T9300 machines with Vista and 4GB RAM and I > am quite satisfied. > > > GuidoElia > HELPPC > > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Inviato: sabato 10 maggio 2008 16.44 > A: NT System Admin Issues > Oggetto: RE: Why XP is doomed > > > MS's earnings were disappointing? Welcome to 2008. They can stand in > line with the other 80% of companies with the same problems. > > As for support, XP has been around since 2001 and mainstream support > goes until Apr. 2009. > That's a damn long life cycle for any software maker. This is the same > whining that went on with Windows 98 and Windows 2000. I don't remember > the world ending in either case. Think about what other software was > released in > 2001 and if it's still support. I wonder if Adobe still supports > Photoshop 6.0? I'll bet Apple still supports OSX 10.0.0, but Apple seems > to be living the rock star life these days. > > Now Ill also say I'm still a HUGE XP fan. I use XP at home on all my > machines. My work machine is Vista and while I don't really dislike it, > it really doesn't do much for me either. But eventually the time will > come to upgrade, and I'm sure my world won't end either. The "Vista > sucks" thing has certainly taken on a life of its own. I would venture > to guess that a very large percentage of the people who say it sucks > have never tried it. > It doesn't totally suck, it's just....slightly sucky. Frankly if they > could just get it to perform better, it would be great. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 7:20 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Why XP is doomed > > Interesting analysis from Cringely. As always, "follow the money" ... > > ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- I, Cringely . The Pulpit . > Wimpy | PBS > > ... > > Several readers are concerned about Microsoft's decision to stop > selling > > Windows XP and -- most importantly -- end security updates for the > venerable operating system. This has everything to do with business > and > nothing at all to do with technology. Wearing my business reporter's > > fedora, then, I'll point you back a week or so to Microsoft's most > recent > earnings announcement, which disappointed Wall Street. This is > significant > because it is hard to find a Wall Street analyst who remembers the > last > time Microsoft's earnings were disappointing. It simply doesn't > happen. > That's because Microsoft has a myriad of tools for adjusting the > numbers > > to look just right. > > Because Microsoft has so many tools for fine-tuning its financials > (primarily the management of expenses, by the way -- Microsoft makes > so > much money that it tunes the numbers by throwing cash away), the > fact that > this last set of numbers disappointed suggests to me that they, too, > could > have been avoided. Microsoft probably decided to deliberately take > an > earnings hit precisely so they could play the "we have to get the > earnings > up" card to justify the final death of XP. > > Microsoft has been under huge pressure from its hardware OEMs to > dump XP, > thus forcing millions of customers who have been avoiding Vista and > Vista's inevitable hardware upgrade to finally buy new computers. > Dumping > XP will help Dell and HP AND Microsoft, big-time. It won't do > anything for > you or me, though, since Vista still sucks, but we obviously don't > matter. > > Those customers who think they'll keep XP going on their own will > probably > be out of luck, too. With Microsoft abandoning security upgrades, > hackers > will eat holes in the old OS practically overnight. 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