[geeks] Vista is a job creator...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Bryan Fullerton wrote:

> It will be interesting to see what happens if most businesses agree
> with you.
>
> I wonder what adoption projections Microsoft is using for Vista, and
> if they're realistic.

They'll take a page from the government playbook.  Just after Vista is
released, there'll be a big terror^Wvulnerability that just happens to
not be feasible to fix in XP but isn't a problem in Vista thanks to
(pick-random '(lua vistas-complete-rewrite vistas-enhanced-security
vistas-embedded-antispyware)).

Remember how -just after- Microsoft EOSed Windows 2000, there was a huge
worm outbreak that didn't affect XP SP2, but did effect Win2k, and MSFT
drug their feet for -weeks- getting a fix out because 2000 was an
unsupported product?  Yeah, like that.

If your use Microsoft's products, you're their bitch.  When they want
you to upgrade, you WILL upgrade.  Either the insecurity of their older
software (which OF COURSE will be "fixed" in the newer software, err, I
mean in a service pack for the newer software, err, I mean, in a later
release, maybe, perhaps, if they get around to it) will scare you into
upgrading, or the newer version of Office will create documents that
either don't read at all in Office v$previous or just look awful[0].

The big question is not whether business will put up with the deep-
screwing they'll get in Vista and Office 12, but whether it'll ifinally
be enough of a burder to break MSFT's stranglehold on corporate IT.


[0] Remember the transition from Office 4.3 -> Office 95?  The only
     application to use a differen on-disk file format was Access, yet,
     still, somehow, Word 95 documents didn't look right in Word 6, and
     Excel 95 documents had strange recomputation problesm in Excel 5.
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