Tag: Windows

  • Adventures in home working » When to Vista

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    Simon Scullion

    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…

  • Mandriva Vs. Windows

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    Simon Scullion

    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…

  • Are you sure you want to go to Vista?

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    Simon Scullion

    Hilarious! Via Simon Barratt

  • So where is Microsoft at with Vista?

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    Simon Scullion

    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…

  • The virtualisation battle

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    Simon Scullion

    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 Dale).…