[CentOS] vista humor

[Thanasis Rizoulis]

O/H John Plemons έγραψε:
> Like you I had my first check out of Vista, got the Ultimate version, 
> can you say Windows ME version 2...  We use XP Pro clients in my 
> business so I needed to see what I might be getting into...
> 
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Well I got a new laptop with vista. Got it on monday and I have seen 4 
>> blue screens on it.
>> I am getting ready to dual boot it and centos 5 (any day!!!).

Four blue screens eh? And I was wondering if they made any cosmetic 
changes to the BSODs. Any fancy screenshots? :)

Seriously now, most of my customers use Windows XP and they are happy 
with it, more or less. Vista is the new candy and many people want to 
taste it. The fact is that I have yet to suggest Vista to anyone since:

a) Specialised accounting software used by most of my customers is still 
not ready for Vista
b) I just had a call from a home user who installed a (non-Vista-Ready) 
version of Nero 7 and on the next reboot his DVD drive disappeared, 
whatch out for unsupported drivers as well

All in all it was a hasty release. I have already talked with our sales 
team and we are making plans on buying more XP licenses for the meantime 
and the days to come, since Vista is a horsepower-sucker. Add a nice 
antivirus upon it and you're good to go out and play basketball while 
your computer (hardly) disinfects itself.
Has any of these software houses ever put some thinking about 
productivity issues?
I put two machines side by side last week for a demonstration. One was 
an old P3-800/128RAM/20GB disk Win98/office 2000. The other was a 
P4-3G/1GBRAM/80GB SATA WinXPsp2 / Office 2003. Using office on both 
computers "felt" exactly the same. Productivity is exactly the same.
Most of my customers switch to a faster machine after a really bad disk 
crash or lack of using fancy gadgets (USB devices mostly).

I think I am going to nudge my upstream accounting software providers 
for a Linux version, no fun in computing anymore with M$ (except for games).

-- 
RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens
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Thanos Rizoulis
Electronic Computing Systems Engineer
Larissa, Greece
FreeBSD/PCBSD user