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Microsoft said on Thursday that a nearly-final version of its next-generation Windows 7 operating system will be publicly released on May 5.
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Windows XP holdouts are being told they will have to upgrade to Vista to make a transition to Windows 7.
"Windows 7 shows significant promise," Forrester Research analyst Ben Gray wrote in an independent report on the operating system. "Start preparing for it now, and the best way to prepare for Windows 7 is by deploying Windows Vista."
WTF???
In other words, you have to buy Vista so you can buy Windows 7?
That seems whack. I'm skeptical it will really work that way.
There have been rumors that there won't be an easy upgrade from XP to Windows 7.
Still, way to piss off large numbers of your customer base if that's so....
From what I've been hearing, you need to go through Vista to do an upgrade? -- that is, a "hey, hit this button and we'll manage everything for you". It's not the case that you can't install Win7 without buying Vista first; people who want to back up and do a clean install can do so, but they just won't make it as easy for you to skip over Vista altogether.
Grah. I hate .docx files.
That is all.
There have been rumors that there won't be an easy upgrade from XP to Windows 7.
Way to encourage the black market, Microsoft.
Recommendations for IIS log file analysis software?
eta: W3C extended log format
Thanks for asking that Facebook question Vortex. I've as much as abandoned the site for weariness over "Thus and so has sent Whose and so a blankfilling!"
I get enough flotsom in my data stream without all that.
Speaking of jetsom, I'm trying to figure out if there is a useful way to archive email onto a disc from Thunderbird.
I followed all the instructions, zipping the profile, adding it to a burn folder and burning it onto a dvd. Upon opening, however, most of the archived mail was jibberish.
Is this the best I can hope for given email formats and html stuff?
Anybody have a (pref free) financial management software tool for Mac they love? My old version of Quicken (2004, I think) won't run on my new laptop, and the migration to the new Quicken Financial Life beta was a complete bust. (They offer a free data conversion tool...which is also in beta and explicitly unsupported. This tool also utterly fails to WORK. Blech.)
So I'm open to suggestions. I'd prefer something free and able to convert Quicken 2004 data files.
