Quoting Douglas Eadline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue 20 May 2008
03:47:06 PM PDT:
If I were MS I would be real worried about this.
But then, I'm just a cluster geek.
Splashtop, if I understand it correctly quickly
launches a lightweight Linux capable of running
certain applications like firefox.
The idea is that instead of waiting for your computer
to boot a full OS, you can power up a browser, instant
message client, voip etc. in a few seconds. Combined
with the growing "web space applications" this could
challenge the traditional "desktop". It is my observation,
that the first application people touch is the one they
often use. Why wait (and wait) for Vista?
Mind you, most users of XP or Vista these days don't reboot but every
few weeks, if that often.
They just put their computer to sleep or hibernate.
I only reboot when installing new software that requires it (not that
there's any good reason why installing software should require a
reboot, but that's what the mfr of the software has decided is
needed...) or when there's a power failure, or when one of the patches
from "Patch Tuesday" once a month needs it.
The WinXP tablet laptop I'm typing this on was last booted a month ago
on 21 April, and a casual review of the event log shows that I wind up
rebooting perhaps every 6 weeks or so for one reason or another.
Jim Lux
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