"HEMI-Powered" <none@none.en> wrote in message news:Xns993B523E9258BReplyScoreID@140.99.99.130...[color=blue]
> Michael Jennings offered these thoughts for the group's
> consideration of the matter at hand:
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>> Ah, likely not so. Try sometime in the first half of 2008, if
>> not delayed: [url]http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=470[/url]
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> Whatever it really turns out to be, I'll likely take my standard
> "wait and see" for at least 6 months, maybe a year, maybe never. By
> 2008, I will have had a new state-of-the-art-minus-one PC built for
> me, and trade my 2.6 gig AMD to my wife. She doesn't need ultra
> speed, and it'll be better than what she has. I suppose by then,
> Vista will be ready for prime time, enough drivers will be
> available or I'll get a couple new pieces of HW, and fully Vista-
> capable apps will be debugged enough.[/color]

SLED 10 seemed slow - I probably needed to be able to tweak it.
Fedora 7 will be released in a week - should have automatic updates.
I feel that Vista constrains me and makes things needlessly difficult,
so I'm interested in alternatives. Apple has some amusing ads.

Operating systems may become commodities for web services.
I think I'll just unplug everything and go camping for a few months.