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what are your thoughts so far on vista?
by misschris234Published Jun 11, 2008
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How many of you have upgraded to Vista? We have only moved a few of our customers over, we are holding out as long as we can. We have moved over internally, and I'm on the fence. As time goes on, I am enjoying some of the new features, but there are some kinks to iron out. I have had to upgrade my memory twice.
Just thought I would see what others were experiencing.
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June 13, 2008 4:09 a.m.
It's the new way of thinking in the computing world, in essence to put all the new multi-cored parallel processing on die units to their full potential. Only problems is that the the x-86 multi-core is still a massive clustermuck because of all the cache resources that are shared among all the cores, each still being stuck to x-86 registers... STOOPID... Eventually it will all go to the Sony/Toshiba way of thinking with "virtual registers" rather than virtual machines... Hence the power of Cell... one core can be doing a Linux code on one core and then also crunch x-86 code on the adjacent core on the same die. And so on, until you reach the theoretical limit of 65,535 cores on one die... This also eliminates the need for threading. Personal Computing is becoming Personal SUPER Computing.
June 13, 2008 4:06 a.m.
That's my impression, but then again, I have thought of it that way since Windows 2 (and I still have a copy of THAT somewhere.)
I honestly see no compelling reason to switch client PCs over to Vista yet. And, at the rate we're headed over here, it may end up that Vista is never installed. The VM environment is starting to extend all of the way to the desktop and we're moving away from PCs in a lot of cases. Funny thing is that in our environment, Linux boots up the VM.
Microsoft has clearly shot themselves in the foot.
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June 12, 2008 11:29 a.m.
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June 12, 2008 10:01 a.m.
As for Linux, we don't do much with it. We carry a product that is basically competing with Microsoft called Nitix/Lotus Foundations, but IBM has only recently acquired them so I'm not sure how far it will go. I'd like to see it do well, but we sold it before the acquisition and it didn't do so hot.
Tidbit, I agree, it's a HOG!!!
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June 11, 2008 3:40 p.m.
Like Parallels for Mac?
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June 11, 2008 2:37 p.m.
Have either of you used Lynux? We just rebuilt a new PC for the hubby, so we're thinking of taking the old parts and building a new machine to toy around with Lynux.
I've also heard there are programs that will alow you use Lynux as a base operating system, then run "windows" inside it so that you can operate programs that require Windows.
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