Is Windows Vista Ready? 'No. God, no.'

torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott answers the question that some IT folks are asking: 'Is Windows Vista Ready?' His answer is not only no, but 'No. God, no. Today's Windows Vista builds are a study in frustration, and trust me, I use the darn thing day in and day out, and I've seen what happens when you subject yourself to it wholeheartedly. I think I've mentioned the phrase "I could hear the screams" on the SuperSite before.' He also addresses the more important question, 'When Will Microsoft figure out what's important?' and to Paul, like most IT pros, its not about when the next OS will be released, it is about having the OS work."

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[Reverend528]

In other words, Microsoft should have simply pulled an Id Software and said they'd ship Windows Vista when it was ready. Period.

I believe that is called "pulling a 3d Realms".

wow

[dolson]

So Vista isn't close to being ready. I'm sure that if it is pushed to shelves as scheduled, that nobody will buy it because it is so incomplete. And nobody will pirate it either. This will definitely be the Windows killer that we have been hoping for.

Right.

Microsoft can box up a petrified turd and people will still buy it.

Of course it's not ready yet

[From A Far Away Land]

How could it be ready yet? They haven't perfected the DRM obviously, and you can't release an operating system that might allow someone to burn CDs with impunity, or use an evil analog video input device.

Hey - he mentions Slashdot...

[Bobby Orr]

And then there are the online pundits, many of whom are barely old enough to legally buy alcohol. These guys are classic. Let's just say that a lack of experience and a strongly worded opinion don't result in the most coherent of arguments and leave it at that.

Folder Art

[flathead_iv]

Why did I just waste four years making nice album art for music folders and custom folder art for photos?

Yes, why?

Re:Agreed. My two cents...

[antdude]

Here is what even funny. Co-workers have Dell machines (Intel Pentium 4 CPUs) with 1-2 GB of RAM, and THEIRS run slower than mine!!

Re:If even Thurrott is saying this...

[networkBoy]

"I dare say that even the best of us could not say with certainty the exact day that a project of this scale would be released."

While not an exact day, I feel comportable saying: before the heat death of the universe... maybe.

-nB

Re:If even Thurrott is saying this...

[Fred_A]

Unfortunately, our sun will have run well before then and the universe's time counter will have run out of bits.

Isn't that what 128 bit computing is for ? So that Vista can display the current date whenever it's released ?

Hasta la Vista baby..

[Anonymous Coward]

No, Vista will definitely be released before the year 2029; The Terminator clearly tells you this when he says "Hasta la Vista, baby".

Re:Then wait

[Rimbo]

Yes, but the MPW compiler did have those groovy error messages...

These are some of the error messages produced by Apple's MPW C compiler. These are all real. (If you must know I was bored one afternoon and decompiled the String resources for the compiler.) The compiler is 324k in size so these are just an excerpt I hope. I'm not sure where I stand on the copyright issue. Tony Cunningham

"String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3 more than ANSI said I should)"

"...And the lord said, 'lo, there shall only be case or default labels inside a switch statement'"

"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your program"

"'Volatile' and 'Register' are not miscible"

"You can't modify a constant, float upstream, win an argument with the IRS, or satisfy this compiler"

"This struct already has a perfectly good definition"

"type in (cast) must be scalar; ANSI 3.3.4; page 39, lines 10-11 (I know you don't care, I'm just trying to annoy you)"

"Can't cast a void type to type void (because the ANSI spec. says so, that's why)"

"Huh ?"

"can't go mucking with a 'void *'"

"we already did this function"

"This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message"

"Call me paranoid but finding '/*' inside this comment makes me suspicious"

"Too many errors on one line (make fewer)"

"Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM upgrade from your local Apple dealer"

"Trailing comma not permitted in enum definition. (This time I'm letting you off with a warning)"

Re:If even Thurrott is saying this...

[Wolfrider]

Plus, I heard that when Vista is finally ready to ship, it will arrive bundled with a FREE copy of Duke Nukem Forever!!
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