The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
We've all heard the heard horror stories of people attempting an upgrade to Vista. We've heard about it's hunger for memory and system resources, the lack of drivers, and so on. However, people I know who have been using it for a while now, say it isn't too bad and we better get used to it anyway because we really have no choice.
The fact is that most of the new brand name PCs
being sold off shelves now are Vista boxes and, whether we like it or
not, XP is being phased out. However we choose to interpret Microsoft's
figure of 60 million Vista copies "shipped" in its first five weeks,
for Windows users Vista is the future.
Well of course we could choose to get a Mac or attempt to make the jump
to Linux (anyone heard how Dell's going with Ubuntu?) but if we want to
stay in the Windows world, we will have to eventually move to Vista.
I don't for one minute believe that Vista will be inherently more
secure than XP. I know it will require much more hardware resources to
run than XP. I don't care about the eye candy. I'm hoping that I won't
have to reboot the PC as often as the others around the office but I'm
not holding my breath.
The fact is, however, that despite a surge in Mac sales in the past
year, Windows has a stranglehold on the personal computing market and
will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
Steve Ballmer expects that there will be 1 billion installed Windows
systems soon. Discounting the fact that many are pirated, he's probably
right.
That being the case, Vista is going to be the most used operating
system within a couple of years like it or not, so we better get used
to it.
I'll be getting a new work horse office PC in a couple of weeks from my
local white box dealer. It Will have a high-end dual core processor,
plenty of memory, a dedicated graphics card, a big hard disc - all
round plenty of grunt.
As he did when I got my last PC a few months ago, my dealer will give
me a choice - XP or Vista. Last time I said XP; this time I'm going to
bite the bullet and say Vista.
David Bass
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