[Flexradio] Q18. Why isn't the FLEX-5000C loaded with Windows Vista?
Please see: http://apcmag.com/5835/vendors_in_no_rush_to_ditch_xp_for_vista How does this affect Flex Radio's decision to supply the SDR-5000C with Windows XP? It looks like XP will not be available before the SDR-5000C even hits the streets. Phil N8VB ___ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Q18. Why isn't the FLEX-5000C loaded with Windows Vista?
Philip Covington wrote: Please see: http://apcmag.com/5835/vendors_in_no_rush_to_ditch_xp_for_vista How does this affect Flex Radio's decision to supply the SDR-5000C with Windows XP? It looks like XP will not be available before the SDR-5000C even hits the streets. Phil N8VB I for one, would like to see the SDR-5000C and D with a LINUX Console. That would certainly be in line with Flexradio's 'Open Sourcepolicy, and woul make a lot of sense. Even the bare bones SDR-5000 could come with a Live CD with the Linux console. -- --- _____ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ John L. Sielke ( W )( 2 )( A )( G )( N ) http://w2agn.net \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ http://www.blurty.com/users/w2agn check out: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QRPariahs/ ___ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Q18. Why isn't the FLEX-5000C loaded with Windows Vista?
About a year ago we had a talk with the Microsoft reps, we have a corporate license for XP and several other products, the outcome was that Microsoft has no problem with downgrading a license to a older product. In our case we needed a version of the software no longer for sale, we purchased the new version and installed the old version instead. That includes the OS, so we could buy a copy of XP but install Win98 instead, they are very happy to get your money. At 01:31 PM 4/12/2007, you wrote: At 08:03 AM 4/12/2007, Philip Covington wrote: Please see: http://apcmag.com/5835/vendors_in_no_rush_to_ditch_xp_for_vista How does this affect Flex Radio's decision to supply the SDR-5000C with Windows XP? It looks like XP will not be available before the SDR-5000C even hits the streets. I believe that the article is incorrect, or at least, misleading.. MS has committed to supporting XP for quite some time into the future. It will also be available as a retail offering for some time. What they ARE doing is pushing their larger OEMs to use only vista. Consider, for instance, large businesses with thousands of desktops.. they're not moving away from XP any time soon, and they still need to replace dead computers... A typical Fortune 500 company might have 20,000 PCs, all running the same OS. They have literally hundreds of computers die every month for one reason or another, and the replacements.. Granted, they often have a site license, and are essentially loading the image themselves... Jim, W6RMK Cecil K5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. (When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults!) ___ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
Re: [Flexradio] Q18. Why isn't the FLEX-5000C loaded with Windows Vista?
Jim, You are absolutely correct. We have hundreds of PC's on our production floor, all running Windows 2000. We have not even moved to XP yet for our production machines., nor do we have any plans to do so in the foreseeable future. Yes, we have a site license and load the Win2K image ourselves when we get a new PC (with XP installed) from Dell. To switch OS's would potentially cause too much disruption to our production processes, and I think that you would want your air bag control module to be manufactured using stable systems! 73, Ray, k9DUR -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20070412/b60cfb83/attachment.html ___ FlexRadio mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
