Re: Article: - David Intersimone on DevCo, the viability of Delphi, and Turbo Ruby

"I.P. Nichols" wrote
available on the current OS versions. Rather, they'd be using
these technologies to push Vista.

This is where you completly left me. By what rational did you arrive
at your conclusion?

If MS thought that people would go out and buy Vista in droves just to get
the new features, it would make economic sense not to back-fill XP with
them. The only way to get them would be to upgrade--making MS lots of money
fast.

So that's a no-brainer: make people upgrade. The only reason not to would be
the realization that it wouldn't work. And we agree that it wouldn't.

So MS has to push the new features into the current OSs or developers won't
write for them, and people won't get addicted to them, and maybe Linux is
just as good...

But while pushing Vista features into XP reduces the need for an OS upgrade
now, in the long term it preserves the OS lock-in by making people Vista
users before they start shopping for that next PC. It moves the market into
features that again put Linux another decade behind.

bobD


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