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1. Comment - Gates: 20 Percent Chance of Vista Delay

   (Jul 13, 2006 - 9:27 AM)

   Not really- There really are just two Linux distros that counts, and they would be Red Hat and Novell.
   
   Not that all the others are technically bad, far from it, many of them are excellent, but those two are the only ones that have the business stability to be a viable option in the corporate world.
   
   As for being spread too thin, Microsoft have the opposite problem. Who in their right mind would rely on only one vender for mission critical supplies. Sure, Micosoft will be there tomorrow, but if they manage to keep you locked in to their line of products, they will be able to dictate the price, in a way that you may find less favorable.

2. Comment - Gates: 20 Percent Chance of Vista Delay

   (Jul 11, 2006 - 6:45 PM)

   It depends on what you mean by a problem. Last year when full support was dropped for win2k, it was still the most commonly used OS in business at least here in Sweden.
   
   I wouldn't call that a very good result from Microsofts point of view. You also have to realize that many people who installed win2k did that as an upgrade from win95 or win98. Compared to them win2k was a major update, that offered real advantages such as significantly better uptime and security. Vista doesn't offer many such advantages over XP.
   
   So far, not even Microsoft salespeople will tell me how much my profit will have increased in the first quarterly report after installing Vista, as a result of installing it. The IT business landscape have changed since the IT-bubble, and got a lot saner. Now days you must show some resonable ROI to get sale in IT, just like you do for any other type of equipment.
   
   Another thing, the reason people moved to XP was that there was no other alternatives. Today there are.

3. Comment - Gates: 20 Percent Chance of Vista Delay

   (Jul 11, 2006 - 6:17 PM)

   Sorry about your bad Linux experience. I understand that you are disappointed as you not even could install the thing. However, this is an exception. In most cases a Linux install is far simpler than a windows install.
   
   Just like you told me about your shortcomings installing Linux, I could tell you how one of my old thinkpad 600X laptops that fails to install win2k on a new empty HD. This doen't make windows useless, just like your isolated experience doesn't tell much about the usability Linux in general.
   
   In general, it takes a lot longer to install Windows than Linux and the result is more functional, e.g. most Linux distros comes with an office suit while in windows that is an extra licence to pay, an extra license key to enter, The same goes for databases, mail applications, and much more.
   
   The advantage windows have is that it comes preinstalled. Without that advantage windows would go nowhere. Most windows users would certainly not be able to install it.
   
   As Linux improves we will see preinstalled Linux boxes as well. HP, for one, have allready done that for some markets. Even if you don't see Linux as an option on e.g. Dells web pages, my guess is that if you are going to buy e.g. 1000 boxes for a large organization they will put whatever OS you want on it.
   
   The same thing should be possible in a smaller scale if you buy some whitebox solution in your local computer store and support will not be a problem either. There are many companies that provides that.
   
   As for cryptical commands, they really can be tricky on modern distros as the terminal applicaton usually is hidden away somewhere deep down in some seldom used menu. On the other hand that doesn't matter much as you normally can control your OS through the GUI.
   
   Your description of cryptical commands would have been true 5 years ago, but not now. So, if you want to use modern Linux to boast your ego, you would have serious problems.
   
   As you evidently haven't seen what modern Linux can look like, have a look at these Novell videos and you will get an idea of what ist like:
   
   http://www.novell.com/video/desktop/

4. Comment - Gates: 20 Percent Chance of Vista Delay

   (Jul 11, 2006 - 4:44 PM)

   Renewing that subscription is a lot less expensive, than to pay licensing fees and man hours on upgrading XP, not to mention testing and verifying that your old apps work and perhaps upgrading them.
   
   From a business perspective Vista is dead, at least until Microsoft forces people to upgrade. The problem is people doesn't like to feel forced, and in the long run their customers might start look for other options.

5. Comment - Gates: 20 Percent Chance of Vista Delay

   (Jul 11, 2006 - 3:33 PM)

   Nothing, but people that uses XP or win2k, have allready invested in third party products that do that, so that will not be a reason to upgrade to Vista for most people.