Stan Beer
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 20:09
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Technology
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I've just finished reading an article about how Windows 7 will be
panned by enterprises which are now supposedly skeptical about Windows
because of their bad experience with Vista. What's more, many of these
enterprises will supposedly be moving to desktop Linux. Hogwash.
Before we go any further, let's dispel a myth. As
a Vista user, I can say that contrary to many reports it's a pretty
good operating system. But as everybody knows it's a resource hog.
Microsoft's big mistake was believing Moore's Law and the Wintel
alliance were the sole determinants of the future of desktop computing.
Microsoft didn't foresee the drive to power conservation, the drive to
downsize to notebooks and the advent of netbooks.
The world didn't want a bloated memory hog that consumed more memory
and needed a power hungry processor. All of a sudden, the trend was in
the opposite direction.
So enterprises are putting notebooks on desktops and along come
netbooks. Microsoft is caught with its pants down and is forced to
resurrect Windows XP while it works to deliver a more suitable next
generation operating system for its time.
Enter Windows 7. As Steve Ballmer said quite frankly in a public forum
Windows 7 is what Vista should have been. It's compact, fast and runs
smoothly on minimal hardware configurations.
I have an early Windows 7 beta running nicely on my Asus Eee PC 1000HD with just 1GB of memory and a Celeron processor.
So in an article I read that a recent survey of enterprise users
revealed that 84% have no plans to deploy Windows 7 in the next year.
Wow!
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