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That isn't as much of a problem as good ole Microsoft. They add fluff
and very little function and new security holes and call that an
"upgraded" operating system. It takes more resources to run. So what
does that mean? Well, you don't really have a choice if you are a business. Since they drop support of the old OS, you have to go with the new one. For those that rebel, and this time around, there was a petition that garnered 210,000 "signatures" to be able to retain XP and not have to move to Vista. Of course that was mainly ignored. MS actually did do SOMETHING in response though. They are allowing an "XP downgrade" so you can pay the higher price for Vista, but allow you to downgrade to XP. Not only do you pay the Vista price, but you also are counted as a Vista sale so they can claim that it is the "best accepted" operating system yet. Marketing and money all in one swoop that the user community actually are forced to cooperate with. The other concession was to extend support for "low power" system to support those XP downgrades. The last thing they did was accelerate the development of their new OS so it MIGHT be possible to skip Vista altogether. You look at the way they manipulate their monopoly position and extort money from their existing base, and you would realize that the Garmin folks are really bush league. Many people say that there are alternatives. Sure there are, and were in the past. And many of them much better than MS. BUT, do those people realize what it would cost an organization with say 30,000 PCs to move to another OS? They would have to buy all new licenses, and there is even a cost there for some of the "free" OSs out there that are good. But then you would have to buy a new suite of Applications to replace the Windows stuff. There would be training cost for your support staff. Training for all the end users. Extra cost in implementing the changes because that isn't going to happen over night. The issue of exchanging data with outside organizations that are not going to move to the new scheme. But since these guys will probably not change, they will in effect dictate that their outside business associates not change because of their standard. So until Garmin creates a critical mass from which the customer base cannot resist, they are just but amateurs in the manipulation business. Andrew Senger wrote: **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw- Will this drop the Colorado's price tag? It seems Garmin has gotten into the same marketing idea that cell phone companies are in: claim to have the best and newest GPSr, then come out with a better one a few months later. Andrew On 7/11/08, Glenn Nash <glenn.geocachingadmin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:- looks even nicer than the colorado. http://tinyurl.com/6z4l6r |
