US Department of Transportation bans Vista

[The Avon Lady]

I believe Vista is the foundation for maximizing audio and visual possibilities over the next several years.

Hints: DX10, 64 bit support.

It is naive to think that MS wasted all this time just for a prettier face. Stay tuned.

Originally Posted by Skybird

The market-ruling monopole-like position of MS is not good for the customers.

The fact of the matter is that no one has yet come up with a better mousetrap. Is Linux the answer? Not yet and I have my doubts if it ever will be. So that leaves us with who else exactly? :hmm: There's the possibility of Web apps but they have major minuses for heavy duty business customers. There are limits.

Too much whining. WinXP has been a big improvement for myself personally and for the office, over prior Windows versions.

Like everyone is saying, they need to get the kinks out of Vista. This should coincide with a slew of new hardware and software products that will wow us just as prior generations of these products did in their time.

But if you're satisfied with playing Space Invaders, no problemo.

[tycho102]

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

I believe Vista is the foundation for maximizing audio and visual possibilities over the next several years.

Maximizing digital rights management by incorporating "Fritz" chips and other hardware-encrypted tunneling methods to secure audio and visual possibilites over the next several years.

Yes. I agree with that. Palladium ("Next Generation Secure Computing Base") is the goal, and Vista is a necessary control part. AMD is about to bail out of the running, leaving Intel and IBM to decide. Intel will go with Microsoft, Universal Studios, Sony-BMG, Disney, Time-Warner, and all the other RIAA/MPAA corporations.

I don't know which direction IBM is going to go. Their "cell" processors have a tremendous potential, especially in consideration to some of the new optical bridging designs.



All bets are off (for me) when the first production pure-inferometer computer is announced. That's going to happen within about 10 years, barring a major oil disaster.