Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista 600
PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings conference call, Chairman and [CEO] Eli Harari said that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid state drive makers. 'As soon as you get into Vista applications in notebook and desktop, you start running into very demanding applications because Vista is not optimized for flash memory solid state disk,' he said... 'The next generation controllers need to basically compensate for Vista shortfalls,' he said. 'Unfortunately, (SSDs) performance in the Vista environment falls short of what the market really needs and that is why we need to develop the next generation, which we'll start sampling end of this year, early next year.' Harari said this challenge alone is putting SanDisk behind schedule. "We have very good internal controller technology... That said, I'd say that we are now behind because we did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment.'"
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Obligatory matrix misquote (Score:5, Funny)
"We did not fully understand the limitations of the Vista environment" - Neither did anybody else, including Microsoft... no one can be told how limited Vista is - you have to suffer it for yourself.
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When I read this, a certain quote comes to mind:
"The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool." -Unknown
So perhaps on some plane of reality we might be grateful to the good people at Microsoft for forcing SSD makers to make improvements they might not otherwise have made?
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I heard that Vista causes cancer, kicks puppies, and is responsible for global warming.
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I swear at XP myself.
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I've run Vista Home Premium on an Asus Eee PC (with 4GB SSD) and it runs just fine. And quick. I have no idea what they are complaining about.
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... I did not fully understand, frankly, the limitations in the Vista environment."
Be warned, it only works once.
Unless she is also using Vista, but then dinner will be late anyway.
Re:Optimized? (Score:3, Funny)
Take a guess why.
It hung up a few hours ago and no one has rebooted yet ?
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So basically, Vista murders your disks? Steve Ballmer should be worried. Didn't they put Hans Reiser in jail for something like this?
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You forgot to run swapon?
OS X (Score:2, Funny)
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I heard that Vista causes cancer, kicks puppies, and is responsible for global warming.
So, it's not actually as bad as they say it is?
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In Vista Ultimate Signature Edition you get to choose the kitten.
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My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to be uninstalled.
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Um, my dog runs pretty fast.
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Yes, but you can also buy "kitten credits" to offset executed kittens.
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"Overrated". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Take those moderators and have them sacked. And those folks responsible for the credits, too.
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What's so impressive about his ID number?
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That's why I never use my Vista desktop. If I touch it, I have to reboot it.
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RMS never told you what happened to your father. Vista is your father.
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OK, I'll bite...
This is yet another example of Microsoft's heroic efforts to push the envelope of software and hardware design. After all, without the great demands that Windows, the most advanced OS on the planet and pinnacle of Human technological achievement, places on hardware, we'd all still be using Sinclair Spectrums. Or worse, the Apple Mac.