Re: Black Plague + Eu concerns
Al Getz wrote:
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> I know it might take a while for MS's new takeover, but i find they
> are relentless when it comes to marketing and this new system is
> a big trick to grab and keep more of the market as usual. I dont think
> it can be stopped, and Linux dev is too slow to keep up, but if Rob
> can begin to support the new 'platform' perhaps this would help?
> So i repeat: did anyone ask Rob about support for Vista yet?
Sort of early to talk about support. Microsoft has already dropped
many of the promised features of Longhorn, if the beta is any indication.
IOW, their marketing droids may have promised more than their programmers
can deliver. Not because they aren't good programmers - that remains to be
seen - but because common sense gets in the way.
Think about this logically - Longhorn Vista (the view a bull sees)
is going to be installed on new computers. If it won't run legacy apps,
then people are going to be very upset. Instead of spending $thousands
to upgrade those apps (which would probably come with new bugs), it
will be *much* more tempting to just buy your new computer *without*
an OS, and figure out how to install your old OS. More people learning
how to crack XP's install is not what Microsoft wants.
Or worse, from Mr. Gates' point of view, they might be tempted to switch
to Mac or even Linux. I can imagine some high-end software companies
actually encouraging their customers to switch:
"Well, it may take months to convert our program to run with Vista,
but we can upgrade you to our Mac version for only $?.99 today."
No doubt somebody at Microsoft has figured this out already, so I think
there'll be full support for legacy stuff.
One of the big excuses people use for not switching to a safer OS such
as Linux is the 'retraining' problem. Microsoft does not want to make
this argument moot. So don't expect any dramatic changes. Maybe some
eye candy, and a few useful features borrowed from other OS's, like
tabbed browsing and transparent windows.
As for Linux development, I don't know why you think it's slow. Most of
the neat new features in IE7 *already exist* in Linux browsers, like Firefox.
And, unlike Windows bugs, Linux bugs get fixed quickly.
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