On 15/07/12 20:30, Mark Trickett wrote:
That is until mobile provides actually bother to implement IPv6 on their subscriber networks
It is coming to a crunch where it should be IPv6, and nothing else, but I am certain that they will not move soon enough, citing "legacy" systems that cannot cope. The sooner that Microsoft Windows is _NOT_ supported, the better for all of us.
Non sequitur. What does Microsoft Windows have to do with implementing IPv6 on subscriber networks? The mobile phone towers don’t run Windows. Nor do their switches or routers. And their accounting software don’t need to use IPv6 as a transport — and that’s an application level problem, not an operating system problem. And, as James Turnbull correctly points out, Windows fully supports IPv6 anyway, [0] making your argument not just a non sequitur but baloney. -- [0] Ever tried setting up a 100% IPv6 network, including Active Directory, MS Exchange, all the usual? Yep, I’ve done it. It Works.™ Many IPv6 technologies that OS X and Linux have only just started supporting by default in 2011/2012 have been supported solidly in Windows since 2006. [1] [1] Beware of the “fallacy fallacy”. Just because you may be able to find one area where Windows is lacking in IPv6 compared to OS X or Linux doesn’t mean it’s not miles ahead in almost all other areas.