Topic: Microsoft may delay Windows Vista again

[Mr_Tricorder]

http://today.reuters.com/business/newsArticle.aspx?type=technology&storyID=nN02271704

[Sirgod]

The more they add to the plumbing...

Stephen

[Just plain old Punisher]

...the more sh*t that gets backed up?

[Nemesis]

I'm hoping that they are tired of all two things.  The anti-trust suits over embedding programs in the OS and the problems caused by things that don't belong in the OS being dropped in for marketing reasons.  If that is the truth then MS will be separating out other programs as well as the reported separation of Windows and IE.

[Just plain old Punisher]

...that and keep stabbing that bill gates voodoo doll.

[Mr_Tricorder]

...that and keep stabbing that bill gates voodoo doll.

Actually, I don't think Gates is too bad.  The one I hate is Steve Ballmer.

[Overmind]

Vista is delayed until 2007.01.,But no more: http://www.windowsitpro.com/windowspaulthurrott/Article/ArticleID/50190/windowspaulthurrott_50190.html

[Nemesis]

...that and keep stabbing that bill gates voodoo doll.

Just a question for you.  How well would  your favourite antipersonnel weapon work if all the other antipersonnel weapons were integrated into the same package?  Just how strong would the minion need to be to actually use the combined "weapon"?  How easy would it be to redesign the pistol element if the anti-tank weapon used some of the same components and had to remain functional?

Thats where Windows has been going since Microsoft "integrated" DOS and Windows in Win95 to bypass anti-trust laws.  You don't think that Windows Vista wants 2gb of ram and a dual core CPU because it is better performing do you?

[Just plain old Punisher]

...that and keep stabbing that bill gates voodoo doll.

Just a question for you.  How well would  your favourite antipersonnel weapon work if all the other antipersonnel weapons were integrated into the same package?  Just how strong would the minion need to be to actually use the combined "weapon"?  How easy would it be to redesign the pistol element if the anti-tank weapon used some of the same components and had to remain functional?

Thats where Windows has been going since Microsoft "integrated" DOS and Windows in Win95 to bypass anti-trust laws.  You don't think that Windows Vista wants 2gb of ram and a dual core CPU because it is better performing do you?

Thankfully when it comes to genocide, there are plenty of weapons suppliers out there, so I'm not stuck with one particular company.

Strange, that when combat is your goal you have a 1.001 different suppliers, but when it comes to computing, it's microsoft.

Ah well.

[Commander Maxillius]

The biggest businesses should just go out and buy Macs just to piss off Microsoft.

That would teach them to go 5 years between OSes.

[Death_Merchant]

Strange, that when combat is your goal you have a 1.001 different suppliers, but when it comes to computing, it's microsoft.

Ah well.

Got get yourself a Macbook Pro or wait for the Intel Core 2 Duo to debute in the Mac desktop line.
If ya gots to have MS running on your hardware, use Apple's Boot Camp to boot into it.

[Commander Maxillius]

Strange, that when combat is your goal you have a 1.001 different suppliers, but when it comes to computing, it's microsoft.

Ah well.

Got get yourself a Macbook Pro or wait for the Intel Core 2 Duo to debute in the Mac desktop line.
If ya gots to have MS running on your hardware, use Apple's Boot Camp to boot into it.

yeah, what he said

[Just plain old Punisher]

Strange, that when combat is your goal you have a 1.001 different suppliers, but when it comes to computing, it's microsoft.

Ah well.

Got get yourself a Macbook Pro or wait for the Intel Core 2 Duo to debute in the Mac desktop line.
If ya gots to have MS running on your hardware, use Apple's Boot Camp to boot into it.

I can't show up to the evil org convention with a mac! They'll laugh me out of the league of evil! Everyone knows that evil dictators use PC's with the incidious windows operating system!

Use a mac? Bah! Get a job you hippie!

[Commander Maxillius]

Get a Macbook, they come in black like the rest of you clones and it'll run Windows so you can fit in with the rest of your minions.

[Death_Merchant]

Get a Macbook, they come in black like the rest of you clones and it'll run Windows so you can fit in with the rest of your minions.

Agreed. The black MacBook, booted into WinXP, radiating blue from the BSofDeath, should cast a sufficiently evil pale upon you: striking fear and loathing into even your most forsaken minions ;-)

[Nemesis]

Link to full article

Symantec is seeking to stop "further development, sale or distribution of he 'Vista' and 'Longhorn' versions of the Windows client and server operating systems," among other injunctions.

Symantec alleges that "Microsoft has deliberately and surreptitiously misappropriated Symantec's valuable data-storage technologies, misled and thereby convinced the United States government to issue patents to Microsoft based on technologies invented by Symantec, attempted unsuccessfully to persuade Symantec to forgive Microsoft' s misdeeds under the guise of expanding a business relationship, and ultimately built portions of its next generation operating system on this house of cards."

"We worked hard to try to resolve these issues with Symantec, but were not able to reach an agreement. We believe the facts will show that Microsoft's actions were proper and are fully consistent with the contract between Veritas and Microsoft," Microsoft said.

"These claims are unfounded because Microsoft actually purchased intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004," the company said.

[Javora]

The Symantec suit sounds more like the SCO v Linux case.  Who knows, there might be something to it but I think Symantec is more worried about Vista having its own firewall and Anti-virus built it.

As for Vista itself, as a Windows user I could care less about it but as a parent I can't wait for it.  The parental controls are going to make oversight of the little ones much easier.

[Just plain old Punisher]

Get a Macbook, they come in black like the rest of you clones and it'll run Windows so you can fit in with the rest of your minions.

Agreed. The black MacBook, booted into WinXP, radiating blue from the BSofDeath, should cast a sufficiently evil pale upon you: striking fear and loathing into even your most forsaken minions ;-)

If I want to run windows, I'll use PC hardware =P Besides Mac's are overpriced.

[Nemesis]

The Symantec suit sounds more like the SCO v Linux case.  Who knows, there might be something to it but I think Symantec is more worried about Vista having its own firewall and Anti-virus built it.

Possibly so but given that the SCO suit would be over now if not for the money paid by Microsoft for a license they seem to have no need for and from the Baystar investment encouraged by Microsoft I can't feel to sorry for Microsoft.

[Javora]

Possibly so but given that the SCO suit would be over now if not for the money paid by Microsoft for a license they seem to have no need for and from the Baystar investment encouraged by Microsoft I can't feel to sorry for Microsoft.

I agree, but with Symantec's business practices both toward their customers and toward other businesses I don't feel sorry for Symantec either.

[Nemesis]

I agree, but with Symantec's business practices both toward their customers and toward other businesses I don't feel sorry for Symantec either.

Agreed.  They do deserve one another.

[Commander Maxillius]

Get a Macbook, they come in black like the rest of you clones and it'll run Windows so you can fit in with the rest of your minions.

Agreed. The black MacBook, booted into WinXP, radiating blue from the BSofDeath, should cast a sufficiently evil pale upon you: striking fear and loathing into even your most forsaken minions ;-)

If I want to run windows, I'll use PC hardware =P Besides Mac's are overpriced.

Agreed!  However, the pricing of the iBook line is in line with Windows laptop pricing in terms of capabilities.