Although it is not officially scheduled to be released until 2010, Microsoft is starting to talk up Windows 7, its next OS. To that end, it has started a blog hosted by the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, and is promising to release in-depth technical specs in October, first at the Professional Developers Conference and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. DeVaan and Sinofsky demonstrate that Microsoft has learned from the Vista experience.
After screwing us with Vista, What makes them think our company would ever trust them again. A year ago everything in this office was HP, as we replace equipment it is no longer HP.Instead of customer friendly it is a customer NIGHTMARE. More time is wated trying to figure out solutions instead of having quality production time.Instead of saving us time it is a waste of time. I hope some company comes out with a truly customer friendly operating system that is geared toward the normal person.
I bought a Mac in 2001. I wanted to learn a new operating system and a new computer. Well, I got one new computer but two new operating systems, 9.2.2, and X.0. Well, it worked out. It was a hobby thing, then one day when spending hours locking down and protecting a Windoz PC, I GOT IT!
As time went on, we replaced Windoz boxes with Macs, and then different Unix and Linux versions.
There is NOTHING in an office setting that cannot be done equally as well on a Mac as on a PC.
BUT, old Windoz boxes can be converted to *nix, and not lose a thing! Even Open Office works just fine for the support staff, and most execs.
If opening a new company, the Mac makes the most sense. If migrating off Windoz, *nix works well and allows the use of legacy hardware.
Why in the world does ANYONE stick with difficult to maintain, and EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN Windoz? It just doesn't make sense, and really doesn't make economic sense.
I spend maybe -- MAYBE -- two hours a month on the OS X machines. I spend a bit more on the *nix boxes, but that is likely because I am just not totally up to speed there, since I was last a Unix user in the 80s. But the one legacy Windoz box takes more time in a week than those machines do in a month.
I would LOVE to kill the machine, but sometimes something needs testing... If everyone else would abandon Windoz, so could I.
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Microsoft Talks Up Windows 7 - But Only a Little
Posted by: Erika Morphy August 15, 2008 04:12 PMAlthough it is not officially scheduled to be released until 2010, Microsoft is starting to talk up Windows 7, its next OS. To that end, it has started a blog hosted by the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, and is promising to release in-depth technical specs in October, first at the Professional Developers Conference and then at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference. DeVaan and Sinofsky demonstrate that Microsoft has learned from the Vista experience.
As time went on, we replaced Windoz boxes with Macs, and then different Unix and Linux versions.
There is NOTHING in an office setting that cannot be done equally as well on a Mac as on a PC.
BUT, old Windoz boxes can be converted to *nix, and not lose a thing! Even Open Office works just fine for the support staff, and most execs.
If opening a new company, the Mac makes the most sense. If migrating off Windoz, *nix works well and allows the use of legacy hardware.
Why in the world does ANYONE stick with difficult to maintain, and EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN Windoz? It just doesn't make sense, and really doesn't make economic sense.
I spend maybe -- MAYBE -- two hours a month on the OS X machines. I spend a bit more on the *nix boxes, but that is likely because I am just not totally up to speed there, since I was last a Unix user in the 80s. But the one legacy Windoz box takes more time in a week than those machines do in a month.
I would LOVE to kill the machine, but sometimes something needs testing... If everyone else would abandon Windoz, so could I.