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By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Fri, August 22, 2008 - 3 comments Michael Pietroforte is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) with more than 28 years of experience in system administration.
- GFI study (PDF): 51% of organisations have not implemented email archiving. We belong to them. I plan to change this.
- Portable PowerShell even on Server Core http://is.gd/Ajs http://is.gd/1Q07
- Sysinternals updates: Desktop v1.0 (new virtual desktop tool), Ausruns v9.33 (automatically scans and exports now) http://is.gd/1PZC
- Microsoft is a big Linux vendor. http://is.gd/1PZ3 http://is.gd/1PZm How times change.
- First Look at the New VMware Server 2.0 RC1 (and How it Compares to ESXi) http://is.gd/1PYr A more positive view than mine http://is.gd/1PYA
- Microsoft eases virtualisation licensing. 90-day restriction will be removed on 1 September. http://is.gd/1PY6 http://is.gd/1PYh
- Windows 7 Server to be ‘minor release’ http://is.gd/1Kt0 The name will be Windows Server 2008 R2. How ugly! Why not just Windows Server 6.5?
- A third of new PCs being downgraded to XP, says metrics researcher http://is.gd/1KrF I wonder why those people buy new PCs.
I wonder why those people buy new PCs.
We’re buying new PCs and installing XP on them because we have several seismic and mapping applications that are completely unsupported under Vista, or require an exceptionally costly upgrade fee for the vista compatible version(more the former than the latter). We downgrade all PCs because a common fleet is easier to manage, both from a technical standpoint and a user standpoint. We don’t have to stop and think “Ok, how do I do this in vista vs XP again?” as well as deal with users that can’t run vista being upset that the receptionist has it when they can’t.
I actually had to click through from my rss-reader to see if someone had caught that bait, and yes ..
.. we don’t have to go through this all again, do we? hehe
We’re buying new pc’s downgraded to XP also b/c vista will not run our software. Same reason as Dave B.