Treacherous Computing Hell

[crazyjx23]

I didn't fully understand the potential, and likely, danger that this piece of **** initiative creates. It blows my mind how much control these asshead companies, headed by Microsoft (go figure), will have control over everything. Not only will they become the biggest monopoly in the world, but now they could manipulate everythingggggg they wanted. Microsoft just gets me more mad day by day. The worst part is not alot of people know that this is happening. Linux will fight this though. If it wasn't for the open source community, it might as well be called planet "Microsoft".

[STREETURCHINE]

wow i bet you feel better now,so could you please enlighten us as to what you are going on about.

this is not a microsoft bashing area:p

[dca]

Relax...

There have always been two fronts if you look at this like a game or war: the desktop and the enterprise.

Sure, w/ Vista, they really outdone themselves. People complain about the stringent requirements to run the OS, however, Home Basic runs fine w/ only 512 MB RAM as well as Home Premium w/o 3Daero actve... Normally you're finding most PC/laptops shipping w/ a gig or two of RAM now, anyways. Ridiculous graphics card and dual core processors and the like. MS was not solely to blame for this. The Intels, Nvidias, Seagates, AMDs, et 'al are. Technology grows by leaps and bounds every six months forcing the issue as why keep an old outdated workstation (P3, 1Ghz, w/ 256MB RAM) around? Granted these systems are perfect for installing Ubuntu 606 on and using for firewalls, shares, or other server-type function... This gives justification on all grounds. If mobos and CPUs are getting faster and faster why not create an OS that can take advantage of it and use it to its fullest. That is what Vista was designed to do. By the by, who cares, MS has 93% market share on the desktop worldwide with the OS & Office combo.

On the enterprise side is where the real war is being played. Companies every day are migrating away from MS. Let's face it, those phony TCO reports MS paid to have done backfired in their faces. The only company to believe the malarky was 'godaddy' and it was probably because they're too cheap to hire admins for in-house work and would rather.... ah, nevermind...

I feel the beauty is lost on all sides. The servers I babysit and fix when they burp push millions of dollars worth of info through them 24/7. It's a shame when a corp just trying to make ends meet get pushed into a no win license bout w/ MS. Thousands for the Server 2003 OS, thousands for CALs, thousands for that crapbox MSSQL, etc, etc, etc, etc... On and on. Man, if you're lucky enough to rebuild a $10k server for the cost of parts and are able to put it back online as a share server to share data across a network, the last thing you want to do is spend add'l thousand just to put an OS on it...

....hmmm, dear God, is that the time? I ranted too long...

[juxtaposed]

Home Basic runs fine w/ only 512 MB RAM

That's not what I was told by people who use vista (and they like it, but say 512 is a no no).

[digital_exhaust]

dca is correct.. Home Basic runs just fine on 512.. It runs better with a gig, but it runs accaptably with 512.

[crazyjx23]

I put VIsta on my laptop which only has 512 and it works fine. Its kind of slow, but it runs. The only thing that absolutly won't work is the graphics stuff which I never use anyway (so much better on lInux).