Re: [MLUG] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> No doubt. I am just telling you that government and commercial
> organization really have no incentive to switch to Vista. I think this
> is important because one of the things that drove large-scale XP
> adoption was that the same organizations were relatively eager to
> ditch the weird mix of NT, Win2K and other junk they had around for
> XP. I don't doubt that every Dell sold to the consumer will have XP on
> it.

I think you mean Vista in that last sentence.


> I do wonder how quickly that market is growing these days, and how long 
> it will take for Vista to command the lion's share of the Windows OS 
> market. Hey, maybe it will be much faster than I think...but I wonder.

That is a good question.  One of Microsoft's problems is that XP actually 
works pretty well, at least in comparison to what came before.  After what 
I've read about Vista, I'm not very interested in using it.  It also seems 
to require a lot from the system:  They recommend 1 GHz processor, 1 GB 
RAM, and you need to have 15 GB free space on the HDD.  So a lot of people 
will at least need to buy more RAM if they're going to upgrade.  They also 
have some major requirements for the graphics card, which is a little 
weird, I think.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/buyorupgrade/capable.mspx

I wasn't aware of their "editions" scheme:

    * Home Basic
    * Home Premium
    * Ultimate
    * Business

Who could stand to live without "Ultimate!"

Mike

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