Thats because in about a year, SP1 will be released and clear up the
major problems. I consider the first version of any new MS OS to be
a release candidate at best. Frankly if they do not clean up the
Usability of Vista, it will be the OS the drives me completely to OS
X or Linux. I already use the alternatives to windows a majority of
the time anyways, its just certain programs that I still need windows
(hint: Alvarion BreezeConfig for instance). But apple and the major
linux distros are working to eliminating that need _without_ having to
piece it together myself.
These alternative OS's are also producing better products, I upgraded
my old ibook to 10.5 without having to do any upgrade on the hardware,
and 10.5 seems to be faster than 10.4. While part of this is because
of the limited hardware Apple needs to support, they still were able
to make major upgrades, support 2 hardware architectures, and it is
still built better. The desktop linux distros are getting closer to
products that anyone can use, again there is no hardware upgrade
needed.
You can see these alternatives are scaring MS, just look at
graphics, Vista supports OpenGL as a software compatibility in
DirectX, and its performance is poor. Why? Because they want to lock
game developers to their proprietary system, so that those games
cannot be ported to other OS's which I personally hope backfires on
them. Microsoft needs to drop the monopolistic, proprietary
attitude. Right now they can't even produce a standards compliant web
browser because of their business tactics.
Even Microsoft isn't using Vista on everything. They are pushing to
get XO to upgrade the OLPC hardware to run XP, not vista, because
they know they will never get vista to run on lower performance
machines. They also know they will lose entire continents to Linux if
the OLPC with linux becomes popular.
Frankly a lot of people do not use vista because of compatibility and
usability issues, once those are cleared up, right around SP1's
release, I will give it a try again as a personal system. But it will
be another 6 moths to a year until major corporations are ready to
deploy it, They need to do regression testing, compatibility testing,
upgrades, etc. System changes should never be attempted ad-hoc,
unless you want to waste a lot of money and time.
DELL is not to blame for the drivers, they don't produce the
hardware, they put it into systems. blame the companies that make the
components and chipsets, Intel, Broadcom, ATI, Nvidia, and etc. Also
make sure that when you lay that blame on them, you need to make sure
that the APIs available to them from MS were complete for vista.
Microsoft's blame on the hardware issues is somewhat apparent, how
many features were dropped, severely changed or rewritten during the
much delayed release of Vista, they released it not because it was
ready, but because they needed to do something....
Just as much has to be blamed on the software vendors that produce
crap that runs on the OS, the numerous hacks that MS has to build
into the new versions of each OS to support poorly written third party
applications is ridiculous.
Ryan
On Dec 9, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Mike Hammett wrote:
Agreed. This happens with every OS release... It's OH SO
HORRIBLE... but then in a year or so, everyone forgets their
fabricated fears. I've been using Vista for about 4 months and have
0 issues with Vista itself. Sure, I've had problems with vendors
who are slow to update software\drivers, but that's not Microsoft's
fault... that's the fault of lazy vendors *cough* DELL *cough*.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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In a message dated 12/9/2007 11:25:05 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dreaded MS Vista
Why is everyone so down on Vista? I have been using it for a long
time,
starting with the Beta Version-now using the Ultimate Version,
without problems
[laptops and PC's]. I think it is more a learning curve with so
many changes
from the earlier versions. Vista is here to stay and you should
be learning
it-not going backwards.
Walter W. Stumpf Jr.
Xanadu Group Inc.
179 Statesville Quarry Road
Lafayette NJ 07848-3128 USA
973-702-3899
fax 775-667-1995
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