Text 35937, 43 rader
Skriven 2007-08-12 17:33:40 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 35877 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Win XP Refuses to Die
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Alan Zisman -> Charles Scaglione wrote:

 AZ>>>> Windows XP: The OS that won't die?

 SD>>> XP?  Try NT!  I've read (several times) that MS is having problems
 SD>>> getting some businesses to get to upgrade from NT because it works so
 SD>>> well for them.  Kinda ironic, eh?

 CS>> I'm surprised at that since NT 4.0 and previous versions use an older
 CS>> driver base, no plug and play to speak of and not much or little
 AZ> support
 CS>> for modern hardware.  I don't like activation or genuine advantage,
 AZ> but
 CS>> XP is leagues ahead of any version of NT.  Now if you said Win2000,
 AZ> I'd
 CS>> be more inclined to believe it.

 AZ> Sean's right-- but the user base is business network servers... database
 AZ> servers, etc. Not much need for USB peripherals there.

 AZ> One of the big reasons why Microsoft is pushing virtualization, making
 AZ> Virtual PC free, including virtualization in its new Windows Server
 AZ> versions, etc. is to make it easier to move that portion of the enter-
 AZ> prise user base-- allowing them to run virtual NT 4 Server sessions
 AZ> within a new server operating system on new hardware.

 AZ> The sales pitch is that this allows companies to replace several NT
 AZ> servers that are currently running on old (and presumably at risk of
 AZ> failing) hardware with a single new server with lots of RAM running
 AZ> multiple virtual sessions. A secondary pitch-- as energy costs of server
 AZ> farms goes up and up is that a single new, more energy efficient server
 AZ> replacing multiple old machines can save the hardware cost in a year
 AZ> or two.

Again, I'm surprised companies are still running NT servers.  Most US
government agencies for example, have long since put NT away in favor of
Win2000 server or Win Server 2003.  I wonder just how many large corporations
or companies are in fact still using NT server?

Regards.

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