According to a leaked memo from Intel, it seems that Intel have no intention of ever migrating their desktops to Vista. What makes this interesting is that as mentioned in the article, Intel have full source code access to Vista and actually wrote parts of the operating system itself.
I wonder what the will move to instead, if anything. Mac? Regardless it doesn’t bode well that the primary supplier of CPU’s that will power a majority of Vista machines won’t even use the operating system itself.
The article on the Inquirer is here.
Microsoft is getting a lot of flak lately for the speed of their website. It seems to have reduced itself to a crawl. What have they done that could have caused this? They migrated their web servers over to Windows Server 2008 is what.
It is a fairly big assumption to make if you think Server 2008 is solely responsible but it seems to be a case of coincidental timing too as this started around the same time as they started trying to foist their Silverlight technology on us.
Information Week had an article recently that delved into the nitty gritty behind their site where they seem to think the problems with Microsoft’s site lies squarely with the developers. However what about those of us who actually have to administer servers sometimes numbering into the hundreds? I came across an open letter to Microsoft that deals with exactly this.
Since Vista was released into the market exactly a year ago, I made an attempt to use it as my day to day OS which lasted approximately two days. Whatever its shortcomings at least I could fall back to XP. However with server 2008 almost upon us I’m starting to feel the same dread all over again that I had with Vista.
The thought of having to work with both Vista and Server 2008 on a daily basis is actually enough to make me reconsider working in IT. So far the only exposure I have had to Server 2008 has been by way of a 90 minute demo on a virtual machine on Microsoft’s rather excellent Virtual Labs site. From the 90 minutes playing around, it doesn’t look good.
