Read this line and you’ll understand how Joe Wilcox (and pretty much everyone else online) over at eWeek feels about Windows Vista:
Vista is headed to as quick a death as Microsoft can give it. Someday soon, some gun-toting Microsoft executive will lead Vista out back and “Pop!”
Screaming “Vista sucks!” is by no means a novel idea, but Wilcox uses, you know, evidence to support his claim, that Vista is dead to Microsoft. For example, Microsoft didn’t bleat endlessly about Vista licenses sold during last week’s earnings call. Is that because sales are down, or because sales weren’t as impressive at last quarter?
There’s also netbooks, the tiny half-laptops that, for whatever reason, people are snapping up. Needless to say, RAM- and graphics-hungry Vista doesn’t exactly run well on netbooks, which is why so manufacturers offer XP or Linux in lieu of Vista. If Microsoft can’t sell its fancy operating system to manufacturers of netbooks, where is growth going to come from, Mars?
This is why, by the way, Microsoft is so bullish on Windows 7—ignore that whole Vista thing, ’twas but a minor setback.
Well, too bad so sad… Ive been a Mac fan for the past 3 years so I guess I wont need a handkerchief.
What are people frustrated about when it comes to Vista? I didn’t use it till maybe 4-5 months ago when I formatted my computer and installed Vista. I haven’t had a single issue and because I have what I consider to be an average computer available for sale today, I don’t see why it would be an issue for anyone else. I have a Latitude D620 laptop running with with a Core Duo of some sort (cheapest option Dell offered) and 2GB of ram, performance hasn’t been an issue for me either.
What exactly are the problems that people are having with it?
dude everyone here is a mac tart… just avoid the MS hating posts, other than that they write pretty good stuff.
I wouldn’t hate Vista so much if they had at least made it completely backwards compatible with previous programs and drivers. That’s the main thing that pisses me off when they are shoving it down our throats. XP still has a lot of stuff that ONLY runs on XP, not on Vista. (and if it does, it’s glitchy)
Microsoft is so bullish on Windows 7
Ready to try it out?
Here we go!!
I just got Vista. It came with a new computer. Yeah, I’ll admit, I did not like it as well as XP at the beginning (I liked the new look, but the functions were a pain in the rear, and finding certain things and getting things to work was a challenge, but I use Google if I cannot figure something out)
Why doesn’t Microsoft just improve on Vista, instead of gambling on Windows 7? What IF it flops too? Or will it be the new Windows XP?
And for us that have and use Vista, we are going to be left behind unless we shell out another $200-$400 for another Windows release. I waited to get Vista, until I saw others that had it and how they liked it. If Microsoft decides to release Windows 7, I won’t buy it. At least for a year or 2 until I find out how good or bad it is compared to Vista.
I’d go to Linux if some of my favorite programs and printer would work with it.
Hey! …. markofkaned.
We Have Ubuntu running all of our programs and have no problems printing now. Brother has opened up all their drivers to Linux. Yesterday I plugged in a new printer and got: “new printer installed….print test page?”
Ubuntu 8.04 has fixed all that old ‘type this and type a lot of that crap’ to get stuff to work. It’s plug_and_play for most new printers now. Cannon is still refusing: because of MicroSuk strong-arm tactics, but you can download ‘Turboprint” and use any cannon printer with a Turboprint driver. HP and Dell already have drivers.
We even have XP running inside of Linux and it hasn’t gotten infected once since we wrapped Ubuntu around it. We use all of our favorite programs.
One guy here wants to know what’s wrong with Vista. Errrr…..let’s see…..where do we begin? The business world has laughed Vista right out the door. That’s what’s wrong with it. Vista is ok if all you want to do in surf, email, and goof off on MySpace, but try to use it in just about any major industry with corporate software and….Ho Ho Ho…..all bets are off.
You sure as hell don’t want your cancer doctor or physician using it. That’s suicidal. You’re nuts if you think corporations are going to spend billions on new software just because Stevie Balder and Billy say so. Oh yeah….one other thing…. Try to network it with any other stuff and its “One Way Billy Time”. Yes, the ‘ole one way road, paved by the geek daddy himself. People are sick of errors that really aren’t errors but just a smoke screen to keep them using Bill’s stuff. And paying through the nose to do it. If Bill says, ‘baa-baa this way, most sheep will follow. So; you’re sheep, a stockholder, or someone that just likes writing fiction.
Me; I’m just sick and tired of the dam thing crashing all the time. My wife hates it. My kids won’t even use it. And we have it on a brand new notebook and one new desktop. Those computers came that way. With vista and all the headaches already installed. (Whoops sorry, I forgot, my wife gave the desktop away to someone she doesn’t like.)
Microsoft should keep XP.
Or…Microsoft should change the name to Wista.
‘Wista had something else.
If you love Vista so much then you should go buy the new Windows Mojave. Har-Har-Har-Har.