Gates calles Vista sales "amazing"
Once again, the reader is left to interpreting the numbers rather than the journalist doing so in a truthful fashion. (Do these journalists know the difference between the Journalism class vs the one-semester Creative Writing class??)
"I mean, we knew that Vista would become the standard version of Windows," Gates said. "... But what's happened in the last 100 days has been beyond our expectations. As of last week, we've had nearly 40 million copies sold and so that's twice as fast as the adoption of Windows XP, the last major release that we had."
Let's interpret: there's a LOT more sales of computers on the planet now than there was back at the end of '01. So OF COURSE it's going to be BIGGER number. Duh.
"In our first five weeks, we've matched the entire installed base of any other provider of similar software," Gates said.
Let's interpret these numbers: take away the OEM installations of Vista, like the rest of your competition outside the Apple world, and this "5 week" result vanishes like a warm summer breeze. It's simply bad journalism for this Seattle tech reporter (well, he's in Seattle, his bias is understood) not to make this point in his article.
In regards to Windows Home Server...
...In an on-stage demonstration, Steven Leonard, senior product manager, showed how a parent could disable access to a child's music as a punishment for leaving a firewall security feature disabled...
So you mean to tell me that a stupid parent who was browsing "adult" material, forgets to put the firewall back "ON" after they're done amusing themselves, can now blame the kid? This is just dumb.
Lastly...
...For corporate networks, Microsoft is finalizing Windows Server, code-named "Longhorn" and expects to release the software code for manufacturing by the end of this year, Gates said.
"This is a product that has driven incredible growth and success for both Microsoft and the industry," Gates said.
Well well well. Just last week it was announced that Microsoft was chopping several features off Longhorn (Windows Server 2008) including the following:
--Removing the much anticipated Virtualization feature set. This is a BAD as there's nothing that Microsoft has in it's arsenal that competes with VMWare. If MS was actually serious about competing with VMWare, this product would be nearing it's completion.
--Live Migration (for Virtualization) has been cut. Another anticipated product to compete with VMware that's been pushed back.
--The next version of Windows server was supposed to support 64 CPU's, it only supports 16 after this weeks' feature cut. Bottom line: this is BAD, especially in the virtualization realm.
--No hot-add resources (RAM, networking, processor). This is a big deal for servers that demand 24/7 uptimes. In a clustered environment, this isn't such a big deal, but not everyone uses clustering. I seem to remember a company called DEC that had hot-add PCI cards and memory about 10 years ago...hmmm....
Interesting to note how Gates mentioned that the next version of Windows will be called Windows 2008. Yet, it was supposed to be named Windows Server 2007
Go figure, Microsoft is taking 5 years to ship a product with a stripped feature set.
To recap, Microsoft is waving their own banner, no one is interpreting what the banner-waving is all about, they're charging too much $$$ for the (lack of) features in the new releases, and they're taking on Open Source in the courts to create FUD so not to hurt their revenue streams.
This sounds like a company that's responsive to the customer's needs, doesn't it? Heck, they're not even responsive to the share holders with Microsoft's lack of progress in the important virtualization category. You'd think a company THAT large would be able to make a new product less than every 5 years WITH planned features.
For full disclosure: I support FAR more Windows servers than any other flavor (several Linux and Netware installations, but Windows outnumbers them by far). I'm really disappointed at how Microsoft can put a mediocre product to market, and everyone accepts it--lock stock & barrel.
The 100 days of Vista was nothing more than the OEM's being bashed over the head by MS. There were no long lines outside computer stores to purchase Vista like Windows 95. Windows 95 was *THE* home-run by Microsoft. The first 100 days? Yawn.
Once again, the reader is left to interpreting the numbers rather than the journalist doing so in a truthful fashion. (Do these journalists know the difference between the Journalism class vs the one-semester Creative Writing class??)
"I mean, we knew that Vista would become the standard version of Windows," Gates said. "... But what's happened in the last 100 days has been beyond our expectations. As of last week, we've had nearly 40 million copies sold and so that's twice as fast as the adoption of Windows XP, the last major release that we had."
Let's interpret: there's a LOT more sales of computers on the planet now than there was back at the end of '01. So OF COURSE it's going to be BIGGER number. Duh.
"In our first five weeks, we've matched the entire installed base of any other provider of similar software," Gates said.
Let's interpret these numbers: take away the OEM installations of Vista, like the rest of your competition outside the Apple world, and this "5 week" result vanishes like a warm summer breeze. It's simply bad journalism for this Seattle tech reporter (well, he's in Seattle, his bias is understood) not to make this point in his article.
In regards to Windows Home Server...
...In an on-stage demonstration, Steven Leonard, senior product manager, showed how a parent could disable access to a child's music as a punishment for leaving a firewall security feature disabled...
So you mean to tell me that a stupid parent who was browsing "adult" material, forgets to put the firewall back "ON" after they're done amusing themselves, can now blame the kid? This is just dumb.
Lastly...
...For corporate networks, Microsoft is finalizing Windows Server, code-named "Longhorn" and expects to release the software code for manufacturing by the end of this year, Gates said.
"This is a product that has driven incredible growth and success for both Microsoft and the industry," Gates said.
Well well well. Just last week it was announced that Microsoft was chopping several features off Longhorn (Windows Server 2008) including the following:
--Removing the much anticipated Virtualization feature set. This is a BAD as there's nothing that Microsoft has in it's arsenal that competes with VMWare. If MS was actually serious about competing with VMWare, this product would be nearing it's completion.
--Live Migration (for Virtualization) has been cut. Another anticipated product to compete with VMware that's been pushed back.
--The next version of Windows server was supposed to support 64 CPU's, it only supports 16 after this weeks' feature cut. Bottom line: this is BAD, especially in the virtualization realm.
--No hot-add resources (RAM, networking, processor). This is a big deal for servers that demand 24/7 uptimes. In a clustered environment, this isn't such a big deal, but not everyone uses clustering. I seem to remember a company called DEC that had hot-add PCI cards and memory about 10 years ago...hmmm....
Interesting to note how Gates mentioned that the next version of Windows will be called Windows 2008. Yet, it was supposed to be named Windows Server 2007
Go figure, Microsoft is taking 5 years to ship a product with a stripped feature set.
To recap, Microsoft is waving their own banner, no one is interpreting what the banner-waving is all about, they're charging too much $$$ for the (lack of) features in the new releases, and they're taking on Open Source in the courts to create FUD so not to hurt their revenue streams.
This sounds like a company that's responsive to the customer's needs, doesn't it? Heck, they're not even responsive to the share holders with Microsoft's lack of progress in the important virtualization category. You'd think a company THAT large would be able to make a new product less than every 5 years WITH planned features.
For full disclosure: I support FAR more Windows servers than any other flavor (several Linux and Netware installations, but Windows outnumbers them by far). I'm really disappointed at how Microsoft can put a mediocre product to market, and everyone accepts it--lock stock & barrel.
The 100 days of Vista was nothing more than the OEM's being bashed over the head by MS. There were no long lines outside computer stores to purchase Vista like Windows 95. Windows 95 was *THE* home-run by Microsoft. The first 100 days? Yawn.
