Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops 567
snydeq writes "Enterprise licensing for Windows 7 could cause major headaches and add more cost to the Windows 7 migration effort, InfoWorld reports. Under the proposed license, businesses that purchase PCs with Windows 7 pre-installed within six months of the Oct. 23 launch date will be able to downgrade those systems to XP, and later upgrade back to Windows 7 when ready to migrate users. PCs bought after April 22, 2010, however, can only be downgraded to Vista — no help for XP-based organizations, which would be wise to wait 12 to 18 months before adopting Windows 7, so that they can test hardware and software compatibility and ensure their vendors' Windows 7 support meets their needs. XP shops that chose not to install Vista will have to either rush their migration process or spend extra to enroll in Microsoft's Software Assurance program, which allows them to install any OS version — for about $90 per year per PC."
WTF?? (Score:1, Funny)
explicit.bing.com (Score:1, Funny)
I think the details of this will be filtered out of BING.
Or you know... vista7 is made out of chilli (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My entire shop is SuSE Linux (Score:1, Funny)
Geeze! That was the worst karma whoring post I've seen in a looooong time! It's not far from, "I don't care! We run Linux!"
I'm sure there will be Mac shop admins saying the same thing later on.
A better way you could have K whored would have been to say "Hmmm. What I think this will do is start shops migrating to Linux distros with desktops that are clones of XP. This will only hurt Microsoft in the end."
See? Sounds intelligent and like you're stating an educated opinion. The mods would see it and think, "Hmmmm. This guy has a point and it's a positive post about Linux."
Work on it.
P.S. It can work with Apple - replace "Linux" with "Apple" above - sometimes, though. OSX doesn't have the cache that Linux does regarding topics like this.
April plenty of time (Score:3, Funny)
The release candidate will have been available for 11 months come april of next year, which is plenty of time to test hardware. Given that 7 is primarily an upgrade to Vista applications and drivers will not have issues, at least not unknown ones.
Vista can add security and stability to some environments when installed correctly. The same will be true with Windows 7 at final release, and will do so without as many slowdowns that Vista brings.
Just like it's suboptimal to run very old hardware with new operating systems, it's also suboptimal to run new hardware with an old system. Device vendors often fail to provide adequate drivers for outdated operating systems, and like it or not the base hardware in today's systems is completely different than it was back when XP was new.
ANY operating system? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:My entire shop is SuSE Linux (Score:3, Funny)
Ironically, I wasted several mental cycles trying to parse that sentence.
Re:My entire shop is SuSE Linux (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Microsoft seeking a patent... (Score:5, Funny)
Hate that goddamn ribbon, if it wasnt for keyboard shortcuts I still couldnt print or save.
Re:My entire shop is SuSE Linux (Score:4, Funny)
Also, using boxen in a sentence is cause for automatic suspension of your nerd license. On the other hand, it also qualifies you to receive a script kiddie license at no charge.
Re:same old (Score:5, Funny)
We're on XP...
They are thinking of going Vista because of the 1 on 1 MS support we have.
Most techs here are well against any move away from XP...
Vista II or 7 depending what your take is is not an option.
We want out of the M$ revenue tree...
Just code something that works and we'll pay for the patches/upgrades.
Stop trying to sell us new stuff that just takes up more CPU cycles for no good reason.
This industry is going nowhere fast.
Burma-shave!
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:4, Funny)
Even though you're gay for linux, you seem to be able to see /. for what it is.
Re:My entire shop is SuSE Linux (Score:5, Funny)
Mac shops have admins?
I thought they just had baristas.
Re:Or you know... (Score:5, Funny)
a cow-orkers laptop
This post brought to you by explicit.slashdot.org. Let's keep it SFW, guys. None of this backwoods paraphilia.
Re:Or you know... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:5, Funny)
Even though you're gay for linux, you seem to be able to see /. for what it is.
How can you be gay for linux? Does that mean you are a linux too? Or is it simply enough to be any sort of OS? Like Vista?
If you are Vista and you want to have sex with Linux, does that make you gay?
Re:WTF?? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm positive there's been a bong involved the whole time.
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:3, Funny)
Remember, Gates hates Fags.
Re:My entire shop is SuSE Linux (Score:5, Funny)
Also, using boxen in a sentence is cause for automatic suspension of your nerd license.
Your nerd license is hereby suspended.
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:3, Funny)
You chose to be that way.
You UID which is slightly higher then mine which suggests that you were born before Linux meaning you fell in love/lust afterwords.
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:4, Funny)
No. But having sex with Vista makes you a pervert. She is obviously a large fat two-year-old girl in colorful plastic semi-transparent fetish clothes.
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe Linux was born for him? To fill the hole, so to speak. *ducks* ;)
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, The Internet is a fucking hypocrite. It's almost like it's an amalgamation of a huge number of people with a huge number of differing opinions instead of a single entity. Doesn't it know it must be internally consistent, ideologically!?
Geeze. The Internet is also pretty sarcastic.
Re:The power of lock-in (Score:5, Funny)
Windows is far from the only obstacle keeping Linux off the desktop.
Blasphemer!
Linux is perfect, it is totally ready for the desktop.
I want to tell you all the reasons why linux is perfect, but I'm going to have to keep this brief, since I'm still recovering from a kernal update that went horribly wrong. but once I get my wifi working again, I can fix my no sound in flash issues. Hopefully, that wont break my DVD playback abilities this time, which i finally got to work, despite the screen saver still popping up after being turned off...
but, once I get all that out of the way, you can expect a long list of reasons why linux is indeed ready for the desktop.
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:5, Funny)
99% PORN
1% Mindless rambling about other crap while waiting for porn to download.
The internet is a steadfast brick wall of consistency. Or perhaps a hard, throbbing rod of consistency.
Re:$90 per year per pc? Really? (Score:1, Funny)
Those damn Developers.... makes me think Ballmer loves them or something.
Re:The power of lock-in (Score:4, Funny)
Blasphemer!
Windows is perfect, it is totally ready for the desktop.
I want to tell you all the reasons why windows is perfect, but I'm going to have to keep this brief, since I'm still recovering from a windows update that went horribly wrong. but once I track down the update failed error code I can start re-adding my printer and network definitions, then I can start looking at cleaning out my corrupted registry and removing these visues I keep getting. Hopefully, that wont break my DVD playback abilities this time, which i finally got to work, despite the screen saver still popping up after being turned off...
but, once I get all that out of the way, you can expect a long list of reasons why windows is indeed ready for the desktop, unlike linux, which has no END of problems!
Re:The whole thing is silly (Score:3, Funny)
No, it means that Linux is into bestiality or possibly necrophilia.
No, that's BSD [everything2.com].
Re:Or you know... (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like I crossed the memes.
You fool! You'll kill us all!