On 1/14/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">kristau</b> <<a href="mailto:kristau@gmail.com">kristau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Jan 14, 2008 1:27 PM, Nathan C. Smith <<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Even<br>> though we are already on the Microsoft Train on the Microsoft track I don't
<br>> want them to dictate when we have to pay to get to the next stop, or which<br>> stop that is. If that makes any sense.<br><br>Microsoft could save themselves and the rest of us a lot of headaches<br>if they'd follow a model like Canonical does with Ubuntu. Release
<br>minor versions which you support for a short period of time, and<br>milestone versions which you stand behind for a much longer period of<br>time. Make the schedule standard and regular and we can all plan<br>accordingly.
<br></blockquote></div><br>They kind of do that now through their service packs. There was Win95 OEM SR2, Win 98 second edition, Windows ME, XP SP1 & 2 and Vista SP1 is coming soon.<br><br>With MS and just about anything else, use caution when installing the
x.0 release. Hopefully, for MS's sake, Vista SP1 provides a lot of the polish that has been lacking in the last year. It currently does a good job of getting in your way - more so than any other OS I've used.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode