When you manipulate the world into using your stuff and you use non-standards to do it, you have to eat your own dog-food. Intel is choking on it. as they move to “7″.
This is a fine example of why we should use Free Software and stick to open standards. All the IE6isms built into the web and LANs lock us forever into obsolete technology. Those of us who migrated to GNU/Linux years ago are laughing. We can upgrade with scarcely a concern for widespread incompatibilities.
Intel expect to save millions eventually by doing the migration but they hardly care because they make billions from the partnership. Those of us who are not monopolies should examine our choices more critically. I can upgrade my whole system merely by setting the BIOS on our PCs to boot PXE from our terminal server. That’s an upgrade from 2001 XP to 2010 GNU/Linux in an hour and everything except a couple of cheap printers will work. I won’t save millions because our IT budget is so small but I will save lots of worries about malware, re-re-reboots, slowing down and so on.
Intel should consider what they would save by migrating to GNU/Linux. They would still have to tweak their web apps but this well could be the last time it is due to M$ jerking them around. IT is just better without monopolies telling us what to do.
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