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Skriven 2006-01-03 11:10:30 av Adam (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 8945 av John Beckett (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: MS Employees Rage As Internet Explorer Ship Sinks
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From: Adam <mmmmm_beer_mmmm_donuts@moes>

John Beckett wrote:

> "Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:<43b807f6$2@w3.nls.net>:
>
>>Like what?
>
>
> I just read an interesting email that has a few details:
>

Ummmmm  my reaction is ...."that's it?????" crikey......so you've got Win2K3S
with a pretty face on it?

All this waiting.....for that?

Adam


> Windows IT Pro UPDATE 28 December 2005
> ==== 1. Commentary: Clock Starts Ticking on Windows Vista ====
>    by Paul Thurrott, News Editor, thurrott@windowsitpro.com
>
> I think it's fair to say at this point that Microsoft has been through
> the wringer with Windows Vista. Originally envisioned as a
> revolutionary Windows client upgrade with a next-generation database-
> backed file system and a video-driven 3-D interface, Vista is now very
> much an evolutionary upgrade to Windows XP. The whiz-bang file system
> is gone, replaced by, well, NTFS, and the Jetsons-like UI has been
> replaced by a pretty UI that will slip back into an ugly XP-like UI at
> the first sign of a software error.
>
> But if Microsoft's corporate customers are to be heard--and they should
> be, since they constitute one of the largest single markets for the
> Windows client--then none of this really matters. Tech pundits,
> industry analysts, and college-aged fanboys with too much time on their
> hands can debate the relative merits of Vista's Aero Glass UI till
> they're blue in the face. What really matters is whether the OS has
> enough beef to get customers to pony up for the costs of upgrades and,
> if necessary, training and other related expenses.
>
> In my extremely positive review of Vista build 5270 (see the URL
> below), which Microsoft recently issued as its December 2005 Community
> Technical Preview (CTP) release, I note that Vista is finally starting
> to show some of the fit and finish one might expect from a shipping
> product. The UI is fairly clean in places and the end user applications
> are coming along nicely. Performance is getting better, too, although
> it has a ways to go. My review is positive mostly because Vista
> development is on the upswing, and it shows in this build.
>
> That wasn't always the case. During a particularly ugly part of 2004-
> 2005, we didn't hear much about Vista because Microsoft was in the
> middle of a painful process called "The Reset" internally, in which it
> had to restart Vista development with a pared-down version of Windows
> Server 2003, which it componentized and then began adding back
> features. This setback cost Microsoft about a year of development time,
> causing the Vista release to slip until late 2006.
>
> So what does Vista offer corporate customers? Is there any compelling
> reason to upgrade to Vista? And perhaps more important, are there
> reasons to avoid the upgrade?
>
> The answer to all of these questions, of course, is yes. But as with
> any Microsoft upgrade, you'll need to balance the cost of upgrading
> with the benefits you'll supposedly receive by making the leap. To
> date, Microsoft has been very quiet about the enterprise-related
> features in Vista, but I think I can present a few features you'll find
> interesting.
>
> Full-Volume Encryption
>    We're all aware of the horror story of the traveling executive who
> inadvertently loses his or her notebook in a cab, hotel, or bar, and
> realizes that it contains crucial insider information about the
> company. To combat data theft, Vista includes a full-volume encryption
> technology called BitLocker Drive Encryption (which works better with
> underlying Trusted Platform Module--TPM--hardware in modern PCs) to
> encrypt a system's entire hard drive. Non-TPM systems must use a USB
> memory key or similar device to unlock the drive when booting.
>
> Image-Based Deployment
>    I've discussed this feature before, but given Vista's three-plus
> years in development so far, that's not surprising. Thanks to its
> componentized nature, Vista supports a new, more efficient image-based
> deployment scheme and a new version of Microsoft Remote Installation
> Services (RIS) called Windows Deployment Services (WDS). With WDS, you
> can automatically deploy Vista installation images over a network in a
> more elegant and timely fashion.
>
> For companies that want to upgrade or migrate XP Professional Edition
> systems to Vista, Microsoft is providing updated versions of earlier
> tools, such as the User State Migration Tool (USMT) and new tools such
> as the PC Migration Assistant Wizard, which moves settings, files and
> folders, and user accounts from an old XP or Windows 2000 PC to a new
> Vista PC.
>
> Better Group Policy
>    With Vista (and Longhorn Server), you control policy settings via
> new XML-based ADMX files, which replace the proprietary ADM files that
> earlier Windows versions use. This functionality will require new
> versions of the Group Policy Object Editor and Group Policy Management
> Console (GPMC), but will make automating Group Policy tasks much
> simpler. The biggest change with ADMX-based Group Policy is that common
> Group Policy Objects (GPOs) will now be stored in a single domain-level
> location, reducing storage requirements and making all GPOs more
> accessible to domain administrators. You can then use File Replication
> Services (FRS) to automatically replicate the central store to all
> domain controllers (DCs).
>
> One big concern that businesses have today is that employees will plug
> a USB memory key, iPod, or other USB-based storage device into a PC,
> copy sensitive corporate data to that device, and then bring it off
> site and either lose it or purposefully give it to others outside the
> company. With Vista, corporations will be able to control device access
> via Group Policy, determining which types of devices that users can and
> cannot connect.
>
> Better Security
>    This topic could entail an almost book-length discussion, but Vista
> will offer numerous security advantages over XP or other Microsoft OSs.
> Key among the changes are Protected Mode Admin (aka User Account
> Control--UAC), which forces even administer-level users to OK changes
> that could affect the system, and Protected Mode IE, in which Microsoft
> Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 always runs under privileges below those of
> other running tasks. Vista will also include an integrated malware
> scanner and eradicator called Windows Defender and numerous other
> security features.
>
> So why might you want to avoid Vista? All the obvious reasons apply:
> It's a big upgrade and likely to be extremely disruptive. Despite the
> surface similarities with XP and earlier Windows versions, Vista also
> includes several new features and enough changes to upset the
> productivity of the typical information worker. In some ways, Vista's
> change to a more evolutionary approach will result in fewer training
> costs, but it's still a big change from earlier versions.
>
> As of this writing, you have about 9 months to sort out a Vista
> strategy, and by early 2007, I expect that Vista will likely be the
> only easily obtainable Windows version with new PCs. The question, I
> guess, isn't so much whether you're going to upgrade, but when. The
> clock is ticking.
>
> Windows Vista December 2005 CTP (Build 5270) Review
>    http://list.windowsitpro.com/t?ctl=1CC13:37260
>
> ====================
>

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