I posted this in P&N because it I thought it was news enough to that it would be an interesting discussion, there. I hope others, including my fellow mods, don't mind that I posted it, here, because I figured the OS folks would make it an interesting discussion on entirely other levels. If it's a problem, or if it's already been posted, here, any mod can lock one or the other or combine the threads.
Personally, I don't like what I've seen of Vista. It's way too nanny state for my taste. What's more important to me is that my brand new Compaq lappy with an Athlon 64 X2 and 2 GB of RAM should be more than enough horsepower to run Vista, but it runs MUCH faster since I stripped off the copy of Vista that came with it and installed XP Pro SP2.
I'm not posting this to argue that point. It's that I think that this step by Intel is serious commentary in its own right.
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Personally, I don't like what I've seen of Vista. It's way too nanny state for my taste. What's more important to me is that my brand new Compaq lappy with an Athlon 64 X2 and 2 GB of RAM should be more than enough horsepower to run Vista, but it runs MUCH faster since I stripped off the copy of Vista that came with it and installed XP Pro SP2.
I'm not posting this to argue that point. It's that I think that this step by Intel is serious commentary in its own right.
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Intel won't touch Vista
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Too broken to deploy
By Charlie Demerjian: Monday, 23 June 2008, 4:08 PM
ACCORDING TO A memo circulating a few weeks ago, it looks like Intel is taking a wise decision and avoiding the Broken OS entirely. Yes, Intel is not going to use Vista on its corporate machines... ever.
When a company as tech savvy as Intel, with full source code access and having written several large chunks of the OS, says get stuffed, you know you have a problem. Well, everyone knows MS has a problem, but it is nice to see it codified in such a black and white way though. Reassuring, like a warm cup of tea, or a public kick to the corporate crown jewels.
The real question is what are they going to use? The official answer is 'nothing yet', the one where they try not to offend is 'likely Windows 7', delivered with a pained smile. Since that is shaping up to be Me II SP1a, I am not sure Intel will bite there either unless they suddenly develop a GPU that can run it in that time frame.
So that leaves two other choices, Linux and Mac. Linux is a distinct possibility, they already have an in-house distro that causes employees look nervously around the room when you talk about it. Although it is not a desktop variant, there is no reason that they could not roll one given two years.
The other one is the big white horse in the corner, Mac OS. If there was ever a company that is loyal to Intel, it is Apple. If there was ever a company that could make MacOS work internally, it is Intel. While any marriage with the turtlenecked sociopath is a match made in hell, don't count this one out either.
In the end, you have Intel flipping MS the bird, and telling them what they already know, Vista is undeployable by anyone with a grain of common sense. The impressive thing is that it just might lead to a waving off of MS entirely, they are the underdog for the next round of upgrades.