Vista vs Windows 7 - upgrade or SP3?

What is it - a costly upgrade or a service pack, which would have to be
free otherwise?

PencilState wrote:

> I don't know.
> Lets say you paint my house.
> Three years later, I want you to paint it again for free, cause it don't
> look new anymore.
> You gonna do it?

General answer - no.

But imagine now, I painted your house 3 years ago, but a few weeks later
the paint started to flake off, your old fridge - compatible with the
old painting stopped working immediately and your front door started to
question you every time you come home after a beer with your friends?

PencilState wrote:
>
> "Vladimir Petrov" <> wrote in message
> news:hbfk1r$o74$...
>> What is it - a costly upgrade or a service pack, which would have to
>> be free otherwise?
>
> I don't know.
> Lets say you paint my house.
> Three years later, I want you to paint it again for free, cause it don't
> look new anymore.
> You gonna do it?

Software doesn't wear out, moron, like paint exposed to the elements.
Try another analogy.

Alias

"PencilState" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> "Vladimir Petrov" <> wrote in message
> news:hbfk1r$o74$...
>> What is it - a costly upgrade or a service pack, which would have to be
>> free otherwise?
>
> I don't know.
> Lets say you paint my house.

What Vladimir was saying has nothing to do with painting your house, he was
merely describing Windows 7 as an SP3 to WinVista and hence it should be
free, don't you agree?
If you are so eager to pay for it, I can't blame Microsoft for taking
advantage. You see now what you got us into?

> Three years later, I want you to paint it again for free, cause it don't
> look new anymore.
> You gonna do it?

PencilState;1171248 Wrote:
> "Vladimir Petrov" <vpetrov@newsgroup> wrote in messag
> news:hbfkbe$o74$...> > >
> > > PencilState wrote
> > >> > > > >
> > > >> I don't know
> > > >> Lets say you paint my house
> > > >> Three years later, I want you to paint it again for free, cause i
> > > don'
> > > >> look new anymore
> > > >> You gonna do it?> > > >
> >
> > > General answer - no
> >
> > > But imagine now, I painted your house 3 years ago, but a fe
> > weeks late
> > > the paint started to flake off, your old fridge - compatible wit
> > the ol
> > > painting stopped working immediately and your front door starte
> > t
> > > question you every time you come home after a beer with you
> > friends? > >
>
> My fridge is new, and isn't affected by exterior paint cause I got
> goo
> one
> If my front door starts talking to me, I've had more than a beer
>
> I like Windows 7, and will buy it when the retail version hits th
> shelves
> The PC I got my wife, I want to steal, cause it has 7 running
> If you don't want to get it, don't

In the old days, you had to pay a monthly lease (on large systems) fo
software. And that you had to pay forever. In turn, that paid for th
development cost of the enhancements
Now you pay a one time charge license fee - which is rather modest,
think. How would a company like MS survive if they made eterna
enhancements without collecting some new money from time to time
E.g. Vista is said to have 55 million lines of code. The cost per lin
of code is appr. $1000. Make the calculation. I don't know how man
lines of code have been added/changed for Win7 over Vista. But I am sur
it is a few million (that did cost a few billion)
I am sure you would not like if your employer told you that he wil
give you full pay for the first year only, but for the following 2
years you will have to work for free

--
whs

PencilState wrote:
>
> "whs" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> PencilState;1171248 Wrote:
>>> "Vladimir Petrov" <vpetrov@newsgroup> wrote in message
>>> news:hbfkbe$o74$...> > >
>>> > > PencilState wrote:
>>> > >> > > > >
>>> > > >> I don't know.
>>> > > >> Lets say you paint my house.
>>> > > >> Three years later, I want you to paint it again for free,
>>> cause it
>>> > > don't
>>> > > >> look new anymore.
>>> > > >> You gonna do it?> > > >
>>> > >
>>> > > General answer - no.
>>> > >
>>> > > But imagine now, I painted your house 3 years ago, but a few
>>> > weeks later
>>> > > the paint started to flake off, your old fridge - compatible with
>>> > the old
>>> > > painting stopped working immediately and your front door started
>>> > to
>>> > > question you every time you come home after a beer with your
>>> > friends? > >
>>>
>>> My fridge is new, and isn't affected by exterior paint cause I got a
>>> good
>>> one.
>>> If my front door starts talking to me, I've had more than a beer.
>>>
>>> I like Windows 7, and will buy it when the retail version hits the
>>> shelves.
>>> The PC I got my wife, I want to steal, cause it has 7 running.
>>> If you don't want to get it, don't.
>>
>> In the old days, you had to pay a monthly lease (on large systems) for
>> software. And that you had to pay forever. In turn, that paid for the
>> development cost of the enhancements.
>> Now you pay a one time charge license fee - which is rather modest, I
>> think. How would a company like MS survive if they made eternal
>> enhancements without collecting some new money from time to time.
>> E.g. Vista is said to have 55 million lines of code. The cost per line
>> of code is appr. $1000. Make the calculation. I don't know how many
>> lines of code have been added/changed for Win7 over Vista. But I am sure
>> it is a few million (that did cost a few billion).
>> I am sure you would not like if your employer told you that he will
>> give you full pay for the first year only, but for the following 25
>> years you will have to work for free.
>>
>>
>
> Why are you responding to me?
> English not your first language?

"Copywrite". ROFL.

Alias

whs wrote:

> How would a company like MS survive if they made eternal
> enhancements without collecting some new money from time to time.

Sounds reasonable. What would happen to MicroSoft's profits if they do
their job properly the first time in 2007...

> I am sure you would not like if your employer told you that he will
> give you full pay for the first year only, but for the following 25
> years you will have to work for free.

I would not like it at all. Especially, if I would be doing good
whatever I am doing. Does that mean that the worst enemy of MicroSoft
are themselves with reasonably well working Windows XP and Office 2003?
Vista is a fiasco comparing to XP, so now they have to produce
"something" like Vista 7 in order to kick start that cash flow again?

i'm sure it all depends on when you bought your computer.


no>?
"Vladimir Petrov" <> wrote in message
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> What is it - a costly upgrade or a service pack, which would have to be
> free otherwise?

"Vadim Igorev" <> wrote in message
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> whs wrote:
>
>> How would a company like MS survive if they made eternal
>> enhancements without collecting some new money from time to time.
>
> Sounds reasonable. What would happen to MicroSoft's profits if they do
> their job properly the first time in 2007...
>
>> I am sure you would not like if your employer told you that he will
>> give you full pay for the first year only, but for the following 25
>> years you will have to work for free.
>
> I would not like it at all. Especially, if I would be doing good whatever
> I am doing. Does that mean that the worst enemy of MicroSoft are
> themselves with reasonably well working Windows XP and Office 2003? Vista
> is a fiasco comparing to XP, so now they have to produce "something" like
> Vista 7 in order to kick start that cash flow again?
>

Well you are perfectly free to ditch Windows - there are several
alternatives, some of which are free....

PencilState wrote:
>
> "Vadim Igorev" <> wrote in message
> news:hbfu4k$k9l$...
>> whs wrote:
>>
>>> How would a company like MS survive if they made eternal
>>> enhancements without collecting some new money from time to time.
>>
>> Sounds reasonable. What would happen to MicroSoft's profits if they do
>> their job properly the first time in 2007...
>>
>>> I am sure you would not like if your employer told you that he will
>>> give you full pay for the first year only, but for the following 25
>>> years you will have to work for free.
>>
>> I would not like it at all. Especially, if I would be doing good
>> whatever I am doing. Does that mean that the worst enemy of MicroSoft
>> are themselves with reasonably well working Windows XP and Office
>> 2003? Vista is a fiasco comparing to XP, so now they have to produce
>> "something" like Vista 7 in order to kick start that cash flow again?
>>
>
> I'm sure your employer is tired of paying you to do something you did
> before.
> Once you've been paid to dump the trash, they no longer need to pay you
> for that task ever again.
>
> Good plan.
> I like it.
> New employee handbooks are going out next week.

Did you a handbook in your mama's womb about not bring an a-hole?