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Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?
mr_mischief writes "An editorial written by Don Reisinger over at CNet's News.com takes Microsoft to task for the outright failure of Vista. He suggests that Vista may be the downfall of the company as, despite years in development, Vista was delivered to market too early. His suggestion? Support those who are running it, but otherwise ditch Vista and move on. 'Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release. For almost a year, people have been adopting Vista and becoming incensed by how poorly it operates. Not only does it cost too much, it requires more to run than XP, there is still poor driver support ... With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees--not Bill Gates' departure.'"
Microsoft Vista is analogous to George W. Bush in so many ways. Arrogance, insecurity, spying, ineptitude, the list goes on.
Unfortunately, Linux is too much like the democrats, infighting, indecision, incapable of grasping opportunity.
Mac? Apple is just as evil, if not more so, as Microsoft, they just don't have the same amount of money.
I heartily agree.
You can't just say "oh it flopped, let's throw it away and start again". There is no precedent for this development model whatsoever.
What if they released a "crappy" version of Ubuntu and then say, fuck it, let's start again and use Fedora as a base instead of Debian, or let's base Ubuntu on QNX instead? They wouldn't do it. The development time would be in the order of half a decade or more.
In fact, the same time it took Apple to move from MacOS Classic to MacOS X. MacOS 9 lasted 3 years before the change, and is still bundled with MacOS X as a Classic environment even now. The only impetus for "ditching" MacOS 9 would be the move to Intel, where it cannot run in the same kind of emulation environment. This is an OS that lasted 8 years past it's time on earth, and was only a stopgap between 8.x (which was terrible) and the oft-delayed X anyway, somewhat allayed by the inclusion of the Carbon application framework.
Given how complicated that was, do they expect Microsoft do to the same and spend the next decade making a brand new OS? I really fucking doubt anyone with even a single brain cell engaged would...
Might have been the toolish way you frothed over how you were "blown away at how innovative [Windows 95] was".
Advice: on VPS providers
I was going to stick with XP as long as I could, but then I gave in and tried Vista. I've had some minor problems, and the flashy front end doesn't matter to me. I use it at home and work now, and at work I'm even testing it out by running it without an anti-virus program. I know that sounds insane, but I want to see how good is the new built-in security. So far so good. The more I use it the happier I am.
I think the FUD surrounding Vista might be unfair. The shift from XP to Vista seemed far smaller than from OS 9 to OS X or PowerPC to Intel on the Mac. Change requires some adaptation. I think it's insane to suggest scraping Vista. It might not be sliced bread, but I'm starting to wonder if it's not more stable and secure than XP, and that step up could be a big one.
Jim Harris