Vista Indicates A Shift in Microsoft's Priorities

jcatcw writes "After hundreds of hours of testing Vista, Scot Finnie is supremely tired of it. And of Microsoft. Although 80% of the changes in Windows Vista are positive, there is nothing about Vista that is truly innovative or compelling; there's no transformational, gotta-have-it feature in Vista. But the real problem isn't with Vista. It's with Microsoft itself. His opinion is that Microsoft has stopped focusing on end users. They 'now seemingly make many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy.'"

Comments

When was Microsoft ever user focused?

[suckmysav]

I suppose Microsoft BASIC was good back in the day.

The coolest thing about Vista

[DrXym]

Is the hologram on the DVD. That is pretty fucking cool! Otherwise... meh.

Re:The coolest thing about Vista

[mrpaco18]

My Vista DVD doesn't have a hologram. It just says "Verbatim" for some reason.

let me be the first to say....

[ganjadude]

They 'now seemingly make many decisions based on these two things: 1. Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality) 2. Making sure the largest enterprise customers are happy.'"

DUH!

Testing

[ShakaUVM]

I'd get supremely bored of testing an OS for hundreds of hours, too. My lord, man, have you never heard of applications? I'd shoot myself after the 300th hour of "fun with notepad".

Although there's no must-have features, they'll bludgeon everyone with the DX10 stick and the "we won't patch XP any more stick after 2011" until everyone has bought it.

Re:The thing that really irks me is..

[Anonymous Coward]

And, other than viewing photos, the occasional mpeg, and multimedia things, I DON'T need video editing or sound editing capabilities, but am I going to have to buy the "Home Deluxe" or whatever the fuck it's called to view these multimedia files?!?

Sounds like you need Vista Pr0n Deluxe Edition

Re:Join the bandwagon

[slashwritr]

I don't know if "Spayware" was a typo on your part but it seems oddly appropriate, given your "hard drives turning off" statement. Of course, "Neuterware" would've been more appropriate, but what can you do?

Re:Nonsense

[mollymoo]

The stark reality about Vista is that driver support is minimal at best. Rather shocking considering XP had drivers for much more hardware. I'm really curious if anyone knows why driver support is so minimal at this time.

DRM-laden drivers? XP drivers would give you full quality even if you couldn't verify, to Microsoft's satisfaction, that you had paid for your content. Only communist homosexual evolution-believing terrorists would have any need to play content without Microsoft's explicit authorisation.

Re:Join the bandwagon

[TheLinuxSRC]

"I sat here -- literally! -- for five years..."

Dude, if you haven't completely atrophied you need to go for a walk or something! :)

Re:In other words

[Roadmaster]

Scott Finnie tests Vista for hundreds of hours, finds nothing wrong with it, so he complains that Microsoft now focuses on " Avoiding negative publicity (especially about security and software quality)". And it's somehow wrong.

Spending six years and six billion dollars to achieve little more than a (debatable) improvement in security and a glossy but irritating GUI is wrong.

Imagine what a company that cared about its customers could do with those resources.

hum.. let's see.. six billion dollars.. how about 1000 copies of steve austin??

Re:Join the bandwagon

[Blakey Rat]

My favorite pointless ad campaign was "Plastics Make It Possible."

I always wanted to say, "wow, I was going to by that wooden laptop, but because of that ad, I think I'll buy the plastic version! Thank!

Re:In other words

[UncleTogie]

Dude....You got a Dell.