[Hidden-tech] How much of the $2 Billion pie is going to be yours?

[Matt Lampiasi]

heh! figures, That's funny.

I have been using Vista for a couple weeks, it is pretty cool and really 
does have some wow factor, to me. But (of course) there are a number of 
compatibility issues. A popular VPN client I use does not work on Vista 
yet, the company responds that when Vista is out (Jan. 30th), they will 
address the issues. Same goes for a firewire recording interface I have. 
The drivers will come. The start menu is MUCH better (how could any 
change not be?). Everything else worked: scanner/printer/pda/all video, 
sound and net drivers. There is a very cool windows live meeting 
application for collaborating , which i haven't been able to actually 
test as all meeting attendees must use vista (of  course). It has new 
moviemaking software, and new file backup/sync utils. Some of the 
features and value add-ons are only on certain versions of Vista. As 
much as I don't  exactly LOVE microsoft , to be fair, it is an effort at 
improvements, there are a bunch, and it will have the associated 
migration path struggles that any new thing has. This article premise 
was kind of pointless to me. Of course it's going to make people money. 
Linux makes people money too. Agreed though, I probably wont have to 
touch my Linux web server for upgrades for 5 years (unless I want to). I 
consider it good advise to not get Vista until all your business 
critical apps, printer and scanner drivers, etc etc are all certified to 
run on it.

I am using the 64bit business edition of Vista, on a slow older hard 
drive for testing, its a modest 64bit amd processor, but with 2gb ram 
and the drive is chugging alot. Hard to say how much is the drive or OS 
bloat at this point. Looks like I'll also need to get a new pc to handle 
the requirements of the OS. ;-)   sounds familiar. Were you saying 
something about that Charles? LOL
I am quite sure I'm not imagining startup is quicker than XP though. 
That's always nice :)

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> It's interesting that the web page says:
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> "All reports were researched and funded by the analyst firms themselves."
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> But the report for Mass. says:
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> "Sponsored by: Microsoft"
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> Good old Microsoft creating lots of IT consulting revenue because Vista
> will be a complex upgrade for some firms.  I wonder if any firms will
> look at those costs for upgrading and start to think more about options
> for open source systems?
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> For instance, the report says that for each dollar of revenue Microsoft
> gets for Vista it will create $18 in revenue for the "ecosystem beyond
> Microsoft".   So that could be taken by firms as it will cost 18 times
> the purchase price of Vista to deal with upgrades.  TCO...total cost of
> ownership.
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