"In the business world, OS's are hard to transition to. Its not like a single consumer who has nothing but music and movies on their computer."
I know this is going to sound like Linux fanboy banter, but if you had bought/written all your applications to work on Linux, some of them might need a recompile, but most (90%+) you could just transfer from the old PC/distribution to the new one and they would still work. Microsoft's old model (and in my opinion the newer model) for the Operating System does not cater well to backwards compatibility. I also think that this is by design. What better way to keep you coming back with your wallet open.
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Andir3.0 @ Sep 28th 2007 5:14PM
"In the business world, OS's are hard to transition to. Its not like a single consumer who has nothing but music and movies on their computer."
I know this is going to sound like Linux fanboy banter, but if you had bought/written all your applications to work on Linux, some of them might need a recompile, but most (90%+) you could just transfer from the old PC/distribution to the new one and they would still work. Microsoft's old model (and in my opinion the newer model) for the Operating System does not cater well to backwards compatibility. I also think that this is by design. What better way to keep you coming back with your wallet open.