While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for, it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want. Read the full article on C|Net
Windows Vista Refunds!
October 3, 2007 at 12:35 pm |
“…features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want.” You may be on to something. Vista barely has more market share than Mac OS or Linux, perhaps its features that make it more Mac and Linux like are the problem!
October 4, 2007 at 1:45 am |
“The first indication that Microsoft should abandon Vista is its poor sales figures.”
60 million Vista licenses have been sold. The author must be smoking crack to think one of the world’s largest companies must abandon support for a 60-million strong userbase.
Bitching about pricing?
OEM copy of the full-featured Vista Home Premium: $110 online, actually cheaper than XP Pro. OEM copy of Vista Ultimate? $190. How much does each point-upgrade of OS X cost? $129 IIRC.
“One significant problem that I have with Vista is its inclusion of new DRM.”
Out comes the crack again. Blame the MPAA for forcing AACS down everyone’s throat. Without having PVP, HD DVD/Blu-ray cut resolution down to a fourth. Would you rather watch your HD content at a quarter of the resolution?
Are you using a four-year-old computer with a single-core CPU with 512MB RAM and integrated video? Stick to XP. If you have moved on with the times and actually want to put those 2/4 gigs of RAM to use (using SuperFetch), switch to Vista.
The whole Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux argument is retarded – every software has plus points and minuses. Blatant fanboyism and refusing to acknowledge even the good things in a competitor’s product is retarded. The fact that the article’s writer thinks that a company must abandon 60 million customers is the stupidest thing I have ever heard – even by Ziff Davis Network’s normal standards.
Got a problem with your nforce3 motherboard? Go to nVidia’s forums. Got a problem with your Audigy/X-Fi? Go to Creative’s forums. But no – let’s just demonize Microsoft with cool lingo like M$ and Bill Gate$. Microsoft is charging $110 for their OS after 6 years and they are the devil. How much did every OS X upgrade cost?
Vista-bashers take a dig at Microsoft because their third-party vendors didn’t upgrade their legacy software to support the new OS. Here’s a question: why does the iPhone list OS X 10.4.10+ as a minimum requirement? Then again, if you have an iPhone, you probably buy every point-upgrade to OS X without batting an eyelid.
Here is my expert opinion that matches Don Reisinger’s intellectual capacity: If Apple is doing such great business and has a great eye for design, why does Job’s wardrobe consist entirely of blue jeans and black turtlenecks?
October 4, 2007 at 6:58 am |
noumankhan is a retarded microsoft fanboy…
You said nothing about License agreements… do you like them?
If you buy new hardware, only to capable of running Vista… it will perform far better running any other OS.