Expensive Downgrades
I caught a link to an old post on Ed Felten’s blog today, where he describes how Windows Vista will be needlessly expensive and not designed for real people:
[Vista is] one compromise after another, in which performance, cost, and flexibility are sacrificed … And the cost is high. As just one example, nearly all of us will have to discard our PC’s monitors and buy new ones to take advantage of new features that Microsoft could provide — more easily and at lower cost — on our existing monitors
So it seems Vista will be an expensive downgrade, especially when compared to the latest GNU/Linux systems. Ubuntu 6.10 will be out this month with the snazzy XGL effects included.
The strangest thing is that the source of this information is from Microsoft itself - just buried in deep technical jargon far away from the marketting messages on display in the local PC superstore.
The Expensive Downgrades by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
October 3, 2006 | Filed Under Uncategorized