Business 2.0 Says 'Boycott Vista'

amyandjake writes "Business 2.0 has a story about Vista's delays, the amount of time wasted by Microsoft bringing Vista to market, and the fact that it doesn't seem to have any compelling features for upgrading. The last paragraph of the story says 'Boycott Vista. Keep your old Windows XP PC around. Don't buy a new one. That's the only way we have to let Microsoft know Vista is an overhyped, late, and pointless update to XP — a perfectly fine operating system.'" Relatedly, torrensmith writes "Paul Thurrott is at it again with his seemingly never-ending supply of information about Windows Vista. This time, he discusses the things he dislikes about the program, in the article The Dark Side of Windows Vista RC1."

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Re:Flaimbait this is

[davevt5]

I'm glad you asked. My comments aren't meant to be flaimbait either. But I'm just a guy. Owen Thomas is a journalist for a fairly-respectable magazine.

I made the 'switch' to Apple a few months back. Half of it was because of the hardware and the other half was the advanced GUI of OS X. I have been a Windows(TM) desktop user prior to that (I use Linux for all servers). For me, productivity is important. And clicking around w/ a mouse is not the way to do it. I'm still learning shortcut keys on OS X but what I have found is that it is incredibly inconsistent. Simple 'highlight current position to the end of the line' shortcuts vary from application to application.

So while I love the UI of OS X, the consistency of it is not there yet. I want the latest AND the greatest. And whether people like it or not, when Vista comes out, it will be both.

Re:Flaimbait this is

[voice_of_all_reason]

what features are you looking forward to in vista?

Isn't that the point? Not only are we not getting any (useful) new features, but ones that already exist are being removed vias digitally restriction management.

Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now?

[plague3106]

If I were ROXIO or NERO, I'd be pissed, this looks like a de facto and direct competitor product, and if it's bundled as "part of the OS", it would seem close to the line of leveraging again.

Of course no one cares if Linux bundles a Roxio or Nero competitor. Oh wait, its MS, so they can't do it because they are a monopoly, except that no one is forced to buy Windows. A monopoly is the old Ma Bell, where you really didn't have a choice. You have a choice of Linux or Mac or anything else right now. Just because its not a convenient choice does not mean its not a choice. It just means your choice may limit you / create more work for you than chosing MS.

Note that the critisms in the article aren't valid. The only reason I can think of putting Back in the upper left and Next in the lower right is to keep people from accidently clicking one when they mean the other. Personally I'd think this is more of a problem with Maximize and Close, which I'm pretty sure people 'miss' once in a while as well.

Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now?

[jZnat]

Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. They are legally defined as a monopoly regardless of any "competition" you think there is.

Re:so, is MS okay to bundle now?

[jZnat]

I guess the difference here then is that WebKit (based on KHTML and KJS from KDE) is actually standards-compliant, robust, and secure, while mshtml.dll is currently the most outdated, insecure, standards-raping pile of web-renderring shit on the face of the earth.

Yes, I'm a web developer; how could you tell?