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Microsoft Admits Vista Has "High Impact Issues"
EggsAndSausage writes "Microsoft has granted, in a roundabout way, that Vista has 'high impact issues.' It has put out an email call for technical users to participate in testing Service Pack 1, due out later this year, which will address 'regressions from Windows Vista and Windows XP, security, deployment blockers and other high impact issues.' It's hard to know whether to be reassured that Service Pack 1 is coming in the second half of 2007, and thus that there is a timeframe for considering deployment of Vista within businesses, or to be alarmed that Microsoft is unleashing an OS on the world with 'high impact issues' still remaining." In other news, one blogger believes that Vista is the first Microsoft OS since Windows 3.1 to have regressed in usability from its predecessor (he kindly forgives and dismisses Windows ME). And there's a battle raging over the top 10 reasons to get Vista or not to get Vista.
No, I am NOT a Google SHILL !!
Oooo Wait Wait! Lets all use software for Linux on Vista! It MUST work! What part of "changed the whole underlying operating system" did you not get!!!
Practically everything you install from now on will be in user space. DVD crapware from nero etc try to install themselves into the kernel space. Hmmm...user space...kernel space....user space....kernel space....hmmm...I wonder which is better!!
Expectations are for children with dreams. Us dejected older folk know better. Most of the compatibility issues can be sorted out with upgrade fixes. Of course that precludes the fact that the Software Vendor (SV)
1. chooses to make a fix.
2. makes it freely available.
3. does a good job of writing it.
We all know that 90% of software programmers in the US can't write shit for code and most SV's are greedy so obviously that's Microsofts fault.
XP is insecure. Vista..not so much.
XP allows crapware to run. Vista...not so much.
XP is still being supported. Oh look...so is Vista.
Therefore, users can choose to stick with XP if they belive thieir fav program (Mavis Beacon Typing for sissies) won't work on Vista.
OOOO OOO wait...maybe just maybe there'll be this fascinating program that will let me emulate XP so thing will run. *sarcastic* Hmm...I wonder if thats even possible to learn because most users can't click more than 3 times.
Just because your parents or grandparents can't learn a new OS doesn't mean the whole world should suffer their incompetence.
Yet another case of Apple quietly copying Microsoft.