Early Testers Say Vista RC1 Not Ready

digihome writes "A number of partners and analysts who have downloaded Vista RC1 say the code is solid but they are not convinced it will be ready for release this fall. A Directions on Microsoft analyst said, 'I would call this at best a Beta Three and not a Release Candidate One.'"

Comments

I'm Jumping Ship

[DigitalRaptor]

There is way too much bloat and way too little pro-consumer changes in Vista.

I for one am jumping ship. I haven't decided whether to switch to Linux or OSX (I'm a professional web developer, and the GIMP and VIM just don't cut it), but I will NOT be installing Vista!

Re:Fud

[dan828]

I've got the pre-RC1 build installed for testing purposes, and the one thing I've found the completely eliminates the IE7 bugs is a little patch known as "Firefox 2 Beta 2."

Hate and Microsoft Resources

[twitter]

... their primitive, reactive hindbrain to lash out at every post about Microsoft with such aggression and hatred.

Let's talk about irrational hatred and Microsoft, they go hand in hand. Microsoft hates just about everyone. They hate Google, iPod, Korn and most of all they hate free software. Microsoft hates just about everything cool that's been done in computing that they don't own. People realize this and that's why there are fewer and fewer people willing to ensnare themselves in a business model that includes Microsoft dependency. When Microsoft does own something they hate the people who use it. Do you know of any other company that has bothered to sue public schools? Is there any other industry that treats it's users as hostile criminals who want nothing more than to steal their precious IP? When you treat your customers like criminals and drive all the cool stuff off your platform you will be left with a bare platform that no one uses. Non free software is built on anti-social principles that will ultimately be out competed and rejected.

My promotion of free sotware is not based on a hatred of Microsoft. I do hate that company because of the evil things they have done to promote their second rate software, but that's a shallow and short term motivator. I promote free software because it works and it's moral. Those are things that will not change.