[CentOS] vista humor

Wed Apr 11 17:24:22 UTC 2007
Jean Figarella <jfigarella at vecna.com>

Thanasis Rizoulis wrote:
> 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).
> 

Can you imagine the BOSD in 3-D?? Hehehe