How Vista Disappoints

MCSEBear writes "Writer Paul Thurrott has given Microsoft a verbal dressing down for what has become of Windows Vista. He details Microsoft's broken promises over the years since Longhorn/Vista was first previewed back in 2003. He demonstrates where current Vista builds fail to live up to Microsoft's current hype of the much reduced feature set. From the article: 'I don't hate Windows Vista, and I certainly don't hate Microsoft for disappointing me and countless other customers with a product that doesn't even come close to meeting its original promises. I'm sure the company learned something from this debacle, and hopefully it will be more open and honest about what it can and cannot do in the future ... It some ways, Windows Vista actually will exceed Mac OS X and Linux, but not to the depth we were promised. Instead, Windows Vista will do what so many other Windows releases have done, and simply offer consumers and business users a few major changes and many subtle or minor updates. That's not horrible. It's just not what was promised.'"

Comments

Re:It'll exceed OSX and Linux eh?

[lbbros]

At least for Windows drivers exist? Yes, but do they work? Not all the time. A simple USB pad converter driver refused to install (complaining about a missing .ini) until I moved the setup program from the CD to the desktop. With the fact that they're close, you can get absolutely crap drivers from even "respected" hardware makers (ATI for example, I've never seen a single release of their drivers that didn't suck). So yes, driver exist, but they suck. At least on Linux they can get fixed eventually, while with the vendors you're stuck.

Re:Mr. Thurrott forgives Microsoft

[hackstraw]

You can't tell by the score 5/5.

Everything is judged by a curve. Even C level Harvard graduates and business failures can be President nowadays.