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Adventures in home working » When to Vista
Nov 23rd
Steve Richards has some great thoughts on what to think about when considering an upgrade to Vista:
please don’t think of your programme as a Vista upgrade. Instead:
Model your workforce in terms of their workstyles
review the appropriate solution for each workstyle, looking at the many highly differentiated options for desktop and application delivery including consumerized/Linux [...]
Mandriva Vs. Windows
Nov 2nd
Yet more strange decisions regarding software choices where Microsoft is involved.
François Bancilhon writes an open letter to Steve Ballmer regarding the news that Mandriva Linux will be replaced by Windows XP on the 17,000 Classmate PCs for Nigerian schools.
We actually closed the deal, we took the order, we qualified the software, we got the machine [...]
So where is Microsoft at with Vista?
May 16th
This rather (in my opinion) poor piece of journalism from the BBC quoting Gates on Vista sales figures caught my interest, particularly following the news this week regarding Microsoft’s threat to persue patent royalties from open source initiatives such as Linux and OpenOffice.org. (Link via Bub Sutor).
Mr Gates said sales had been quicker than Microsoft [...]
The virtualisation battle
Feb 14th
Why can’t you run Mac OS on a Windows PC from within a VMware or Parallels virtual PC? Why does the Windows Vista EULA only allow the virtualization of Vista Ultimate and Business? It’s all to do with both companies wanting to control virtualization in order to protect profits.
Source: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, zdnet (thanks [...]
