Comments on: Why Would We Need a New Desktop OS?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:16:55 +0000

hmm I think Windows XP is good. I don’t know, why I must change my operating-system to Windows Vista.
I’ve heard, the battery from notebooks is faster empty. I need a notebook and don’t have a workstation.

For my situation is that not good…

By: sherry

sherry — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:20:35 +0000

Vista is a big dissapointment. Lots of 3rd party stuff dosent work which was to be expected but I dont like the layout at all. For some stupid resaon the start button was removed. The desktop is futuristic and when I first installed it I said wow looks cool untill I got to the starup tray to select a program. It looks very mickey mouse like it was rushed to be finsihed. Aero is a dissapointment. I thought you could scroll with the mouse and different desktops would appear and instead of having to cascade pages the Aero would bring them up. This is what was rumored several years ago. Very dissapointed so try again Microsoft

By: schmupgrade : Hunter and Associates

schmupgrade : Hunter and Associates — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:22:30 +0000

[...] And as Zoli nails it: [...]

By: » IE 7 and Firefox 2 on a par in Europe | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:34:06 +0000

[...] cost component. OK – so IE comes with Vista but recent analysis by Ryan Stewart, David Berlind and Zoli Erdos suggests that by 2010, the OS won’t matter. Stick with me a moment on this. If their [...]

By: Robert McLaws

Robert McLaws — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:06:50 +0000

Actually, Stephane… it’s 40 million now. And for all the people that complain about WGA, why don’t they complain about activation from Adobe and everyone else? The fact is that practically any commercial application uses activation to protect their investment. So maybe what you’re railing against is capitalism?

By: Stephane Rodriguez

Stephane Rodriguez — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:04:04 +0000

As for reconciling the 20 million license sales, and actual use, I have two things to say :

- a license sold to an OEM does not mean a license used by an actual customer.

- Microsoft knows exactly how many Vista licenses were activated, since their WGA abomination is forced upon users now. If that company were the transparent company they pretend to be, sure enough that would be a number to make public…

Anyone?

By: Stephane Rodriguez

Stephane Rodriguez — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:59:44 +0000

I don’t find Ryan Stewart much of help when all he does in fact is self-promoting RIAs, and Adobe AIR in particular. Hmmm, remind me where he works?

As for RobertMcLaws above, this was expected. You’ll need an OS to run a web browser. That’s for sure. But what this means is that an Ubuntu appliance is all you need. This comes completely free of Microsoft crapware, and is the most efficient way to use a low-cost PC.

By: Robert McLaws

Robert McLaws — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:44:47 +0000

The web’s been “it” for the last 7 years, and it still has not downgraded the importance of an OS. And you’d be hard pressed to find large organizations trusting their mission critical documents and stuff to a web-based app.

So what are you making the case for, more healthy OS competition agsinst Windows (which would need better competitors), or the “Web OS”?

Because, as has already been argued endlessly, you’ll always need an operating system for your computer, no matter how much crap you put on the web. You’ll always need software to manage the hardware, and that will never go away.

By: Windows XP - good through to 2014 « AccMan

Windows XP - good through to 2014 « AccMan — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:26:59 +0000

[...] references one of my blog colleagues Zoli Erdos who asks in the context of a web-enabled world: Why Would We Need a New Desktop OS? and says: For productivity / business use, the trend is just the opposite: with the move to Web [...]

By: » The desktop OS will still matter, just not which one | The Universal Desktop | ZDNet.com

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:34:43 +0000

[...] is some discussion today about the future of the operating system. Specifically, David Berlind and Zoli Erdos both raise the question of whether or not any desktop operating system will mater by 2010 when [...]