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Last week's column covered much of the breadth of software inside Windows Vista. The piece addressed some of the features that probably were not widely known and covered likely competitive threats to Apple and Linux. To refresh, Apple is going into the Vista launch weaker and much less differentiated than when they fought the losing battle with the Windows 95 system, and Vista remains too different from Linux to offer the same kind of threat there.
Re: Windows Vista: Hardware and its Secret Advantage
Posted by: Kagehi 2005-09-26 14:20:13 In reply to: Rob Enderle
The laptop feature sounds interesting, but will probably have a linux patch for it withing months, so who cares if Vista had it first. The better platform still rules. Optimal hardware for Vista is something that most people will never be able to afford and frankly, the whole media center BS is just that BS. I don't need Windows in my TV. Often I am working on my computer while 'watching' TV, which I can't do if I have to buy two $800 dollar 'media centers', instead of one $100 TV and a $500 computer. And if the graphics cards, etc. provide massive amounts of power, I wan't to use that power for games, if I want them, not be forced to buy a $300-400 dollar card, just because everything on the machine will run like crap if I don't. I see 'nothing' in MS' media center idea that is not potentially more irritating than useful, save for intergration, which when MS is doing it usually means making it *more* irritating than useful, which is why I and many others don't give a flying f--- what features the new IE will have, how many lame bells and whistles they add to the next Word, etc., when the real problem is that the functionality of them is being buried by shit that should be user opt-in, not imbedded like a cancer. And which if one opts in, should be something well enough documented that someone can *gasp!* design plugins, instead of paying 10 times the cost of the original product, to download all the crap if you actualy want it, which is inevitably what MS would do 'if' they modularized any of their major products.
