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Skriven 2007-02-01 08:55:36 av Ad (1:379/45)
Ärende: Vista musings
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From: Ad <Dobbin@theStablesCloseToTheAirport.com>

I had a chat with a mate who works in the ICT dept who was one of the NHS new
Tech reviewers....inc vista & Suse Linux


Hummm....

A) I had no idea the driver situation for Vista was so poor....basically the
older kit (of which the NHS has lots & includes scanners etc.etc.) will not be
made vista compatible if the kit is no londer in production/for sale. i.e buy
vista & you may have to buy new scanners, printers, card readers (secure NHS
cards not memcards), fingerprint scanners etc.etc. & that's before possibly
having to buy lots of new PC'es"

i.e. forget the "high price of vista".....wrt getting a the shiny new disk from
MS....that's almost negligible when put against the cost of the h/w.....

B) Apparently this is what impressed em most wrt Linux i.e. that Linux out of
the box has vastly better driver support & what's more old stuff will work.

Role reversal or what....I wonder when the windows weanies who used to natter
on about how poor linux's driver support was will now complain about vista.....


C) The DRM & Activation stuff is still not sorted to their requirements (i.e.
in a "life critical environment" vendor created degradation is not acceptable).

D) It's sufficiently different that moving XP > Vista is no different than
moving XP > Suse in terms of user retraining.


He certainly gave the impression that MS have screwed the pooch on this one &
that inculcated arrogance leading to "take it or leave it" was to blame. i.e.
the MS HQ think that "leave it" is not an option ergo they can do anything they
like & the user base will have to take it.

The chat moved back onto the actual reason for our chat following words to the
effect of "the only question wrt vista is is linux good enough/will it be good
enough when XP is EOL & the answer to that appears to be yes.....now back to
the subject in hand....".

Adam

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