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November 11, 2005 5:27 PM PST
Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
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The majority of improvements in Vista, the update scheduled to arrive in 2006, will be security-related and most of this functionality "is available via third-party products today," Gartner analysts said in a research note published on Friday.
While Vista will "offer incremental, evolutionary improvements" over its predecessors, Windows XP users should "pursue a strategy of managed diversity," the analysts recommended. That means they should only bring in Vista on new machines and that not until 2008.
In its research note titled "Ten reasons you should and shouldn't care about Microsoft's Windows Vista client," Gartner highlighted some of the weaknesses in Microsoft's platform strategy.
Internet Explorer 7 will have many security improvements "to stem defections from IE to Firefox" and "has been accelerated" to be delivered in early 2006. But the "important ability to restrict some browser activities to a lower privileged process" will not be available because it requires Vista functionality," Gartner cautioned.
The analysts acknowledged that companies that use IE 7 and Vista will have fewer points of weakness.
Also on the security issue, the Windows Vista personal firewall is better than the one included in XP Service Pack 2, Gartner said, and will, crucially, improve security on inbound and outbound traffic--a particular issue with laptops. But, the analysts said, people should already have "a more than capable" firewall on their laptops anyway.
Another Vista feature that Microsoft is emphasizing is its search capabilities. "Search is slow in Windows XP, and files, e-mail and calendar objects cannot be found with a single search," according to the research paper. Though Microsoft has tried to remedy this in Vista, "competent third-party desktop tools are already available" from companies like Google, Gartner pointed out.
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XP will be around for many years, but so will old cars.
I prefer to drive a new one when possible.
Vista for me.
features that Vista will have, and yea it's just an OS but it's an OS
with way less problems.
machines.
By the time Vista hits the street, there will be Intel based Macs
available so you may as well make that new machine a Mac and
run OSX. By that time OSX Leopard (v10.5) will have been
released which is to say OSX will be even further ahead of
Windows than today. You can always run Windows on the Intel
Mac too, Apple said they won't prevent it. In fact, it is
conceivable that some company like Crossover Office will offer a
commercial version of WINE for OSX, so you could run many
Windows apps directly on OSX. This will only be a matter of
when, not if, that such a product will show up.
So, if Gartner says "wait with Vista", I say "wait for Intel Macs and
switch to OSX".
and Macs. While the Macs outnumber the Dells about 5 to 1, the
amount of support is 7 times greater (money wise) for the Dells.
Downtime ratio is infinite since we have no downtime on the
Macs in four years.
Mac OS X Tiger already provides more than Vista promises.
When the Intel Macs are released, one will have access to
Windows when one is forced to drop into it, but the user will live
in Mac OS X, a reliable, easy to use OS that is more powerful now
than Vista will be when released.
I recently had the company migrate our Internet server
processes to Mac OS X server from VERIO (NTT) using Windows
as a server. We now have no problems with Email, our website is
stable and we have local software updates, and Jabber.
Just change now, your life will be easier.
and Macs. While the Macs outnumber the Dells about 5 to 1, the
amount of support is 7 times greater (money wise) for the Dells.
Downtime ratio is infinite since we have no downtime on the
Macs in four years.
Mac OS X Tiger already provides more than Vista promises.
When the Intel Macs are released, one will have access to
Windows when one is forced to drop into it, but the user will live
in Mac OS X, a reliable, easy to use OS that is more powerful now
than Vista will be when released.
I recently had the company migrate our Internet server
processes to Mac OS X server from VERIO (NTT) using Windows
as a server. We now have no problems with Email, our website is
stable and we have local software updates, and Jabber.
Just change now, your life will be easier.
Gartner is dead on target. Only the very foolish are first in line to
adopt a new MS product.
The fact that the bulk of corporations never upgraded to XP is
witness to that.
- I predict...
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by corelogik
November 12, 2005 11:09 PM PST
- that within the next 5-10 years Windows will return to it's roots
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See all 25 Comments >>and become what it started out as. A GUI app run ontop of another
OS, like back in the DOS days with win 3.1x....
"This will end your Windows session..."
Any takers?