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[Kim Holburn]

There's an interesting article about the vista delay by Cringely:
A Whole New Ball Game: Blame Dell for Window Vista's Latest Delay
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060406.html


On 2006 Aug 06, at 12:19 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Malcolm Miles wrote:
>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:58:43 +0930, you wrote:
>>> It really does depend on your upgrade cycle.  But if Vista comes
>>> out this year then it will be another two years before deployment,
>>> just based on the time needed to organise these things. So that
>>> is an entire SA agreement without an upgrade.
>> Hopefully it won't take two years to start deploying Vista.
>
> It might take that long to gain traction though...
>
>> There are many new features that are much more beneficial to a  
>> company
>> than the enhanced graphics.
>
> ...such as?
>
> Personally, I think Vista should be considered more as an overdue,  
> and late, version of XP Second Edition.  It's missing so much of  
> its original intent that it barely warrants consideration.

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