Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Posted Nov 3, 2006 2:38 UTC (Fri) by landley (guest, #6789)
Parent article: Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

The focus of the agreement is servers, not desktops. It's about
virtualization (running virtual copies of SuSE under Windows, and Windows
under SuSE). Its a big crack in the wall, but not dismantling it yet.

But it's also looking like Vista's a heck of a non-starter, and the
upcoming obsolescence of 32 bit x86 (in favor of x86-64) is something
Microsoft is not prepared for.

Apple, however, is...

Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Posted Nov 3, 2006 3:21 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> and the upcoming obsolescence of 32 bit x86 (in favor of x86-64) is something Microsoft is not prepared for.

Yeah, and some other proprietary vendors, apparently:

- Adobe (Flash plugin)
- Sun (Java plugin)

I mean, how hard is it, really? The darn achitecture has been on the market for years now...

Novell's press release on partnership with Microsoft

Posted Nov 4, 2006 11:01 UTC (Sat) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

Vista will actually benefit from XP.

A lot of corps hold on 2000 → XP migration thinking (rightfully) that XP didn't bring that many advantages over 2000 to justify a costly migration.

However finding products that work on 2000 is getting increasingly difficult, so they'll have to migrate soon. At this point jumping directly to Vista is attractive.