Re: Vista

On Dec 31, 7:31 am, Alistair <alist...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 25 Dec, 23:46, LX-i <lxi0...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Mattias wrote:
I don't know - I remember, in the NT line, that 4 was quicker (and had
that spiffy new UI) than 3.51, and Windows 2000 was even better than 4.
I know that Pete's praised XP as a near-perfect OS, and I'll have to
say that I somewhat agree.

XP is so perfect that MS has released XP SP3 RC 1. Incidentally, since
installing the XP December updates from MS I noticed that the machine
has slowed significantly. A friend has reported the same slowing on
his XP box. I have switched searchindexer off and it still runs slow.
Any ideas?

Microsoft's customers are Dell, Gateway, HP, etc and _not_ the end
user. Slowing down XP would result in many end-users buying more
powerful replacement machines from Microsoft's customers, and these
will have Vista installed so MS collects revenue. They will also get
extra revenue when the user buys a retail XP to install over Vista.

MS needs to keep their customer's happy and selling lots of Windows
boxes, otherwise they may start selling cheaper machines with Linux.
If people are actually happy with existing XP machines then the price
gap to new Vista and beyond will become too great.

The main competitor to Windows and Office is older versions of those.
As well as eliminating other competitors MS must also ensure that
older versions of their software stop working. They do this with
Office by introducing new incompatible formats that older versions
can't read, and making these the default for emailing.

With OSes they try to ensure that new games, eg, will only run on new
OS. There is no technical reason why DirctX10 cannot run on XP, if
fact it can be hacked to do so.

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