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Vista Indicates A Shift in Microsoft's Priorities

Posted by Zonk on from the end-users-at-the-end dept.

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.'"

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  1. The coolest thing about Vista by DrXym · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:The coolest thing about Vista by mrpaco18 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Join the bandwagon by slashwritr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. Re:In other words by Roadmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    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??