I’m looking forward to not running into the 2 gigabyte limit anymore on development.
exactly. you need to be very careful about where you get your info.
Well I am happy with AVG. It's keep my machine clean for a years now. Jafo can tell you about the bad side of Norton.
I guess it really depends on your computing and browsing habits.
Taltamir, very true. But as you noted, most corporations are not running (or developing) games, so for now the memory limitation is not an issue if all a person is going to do is spreadsheets, mail and documents.
And for the developers, most companies already make exceptions on their computer purchases - just not for the rest of the staff.
I would agree with you that all are crap - with the possible exception of ESET. I have tried it and I do like it (not on my machine, but a client's) but the pay for and free are at the same level. Barely able to keep the known bugs at bay and worthless for a new one. That is not necessarily their fault, just a sad reality of computer life.
I think this thread wins the gold medal for barely relevant tangents
(Since we're on a consumer forum on a game related thread about upgrading to the latest ver of Windows and we end up talking about Itanium linux businesses antiviruses and other barely related crap...I'm just gonna stop responding.)
It might be true that Win7 brings minimal benefits to corporations upgrading from XP, but that fact is also largely irrelevant. Microsoft is dropping support for Windows XP, which means corporations are forced to upgrade whether they want to or not.
Actually, XP is the longest supported (if it goes as scheduled) OS from Microsoft. I do not think that is a coincidence. I am sure MS would loved to have ditched it earlier, but when such a large part of your buying base balks, you listen. So it is relevant.
It doesn't matter how long they have supported it for if they're actively dropping support now. Only SP3 is getting updates now, and eventually that will stop. In the corporate world, companies will stop being able to downgrade to WinXP in a few years (2014 or 2015), meaning that every new computer they buy will have to have a new OS, and since mixing and matching OS across the company generally doesn't work, they have to upgrade everything. This was actually supposed to go into effect sooner, but MS was persuaded by the business clients to extend this downgrade privilege.
Which brings me back to the earlier point: companies are being forced to move on from XP, whether they want to or not.
So? SP3 is winXP, just with a bunch of patches rolled up. it is unnecessary work to backport patches for RTM, SP1, and SP2, and it is not necessary because any legal client can easily and safely upgrade to SP3 without any compatibility issues.
Eventually, yes, but its only 2010 today.
Its not as easy, but they can choose to stay with winXP.
They aren't FORCED to, its just the EASIER choice to make.
XP rocks until I can get a pirated copy of seven. I'm not giving those white collar crooks Microshaft a cent.
I'd love to. Unfortunately, money is tight and I can't afford a new system. I'll have to make do with my lowly single core 3Ghz
P4 with a whopping 1GB of Rambus memory. But I'll get right on that upgrade as soon as your check arrives.
Daftvador...be careful. Advocating piracy is a one-way ticket out of here.
Since you're new, Jafo may not smite you this time.
Surprise! The PC market doesn't target people with no money. The console market does.
Tell AMD to hurry up with Bulldozer.
Meanwhile, go ahead and write the 64-bit version of EWoM. I'll be able to run it someday. Then tell us how much performance benefit there is for it from more cores vs faster cores vs more memory vs getter video cards, etc, etc. Give us the unofficial Elemental fan PC buying guide.