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Microsoft Should Abandon Vista?

Posted by Zonk on from the seems-a-bit-harsh dept.

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.'"

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  1. Would it be that hard? by MikeRT · · Score: 0, Troll

    How hard would it be for Microsoft to delay Windows XP Service Pack 3, bolt on the new Vista GUI, and call it Windows 6? Seriously, the only thing about Windows Vista that is a major improvement is the new user interface. I don't know how others have fared with it, but I found RC1's user interface to be faster and more responsive on my laptop than XP.

    The rest of Vista? Thus throw that trash onto the heap where it belongs. It brings **zero** value to the average user.

  2. Re:leave it alone!! by boyfaceddog · · Score: 0, Troll

    For those of you that don't get the joke Hi. You must be new here. This is the updated humor-free Slashdot where everything is deadly serious and irony will get you modded down. But, good luck with that whole "joke" thing, whatever that means.
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  3. Re:Verdict is in? by jcicora · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know I've been using Vista for about 8 months now. I got it when I purchased a new machine. I'm not really sure specifically what people are upset about. It doesn't seem to run slow and it works with all my hardware.

  4. Re:Freaking flamebait articles. by Zencyde · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're a troll; so, would you mind telling me: why are you not holding your "please don't feed the trolls" sign? Bad troll! Very bad troll!

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  5. Re:It's all just a misunderstanding. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dr. Death has arrived. After only 3 years, requiem for an OS: Dr. Death is ready to begin killing software that customers want to use. He has decided that Windows XP will begin to die soon: January 31, 2008. ...and will continue to provide warranty claims, get hotfixes, design changes, and feature requests until April 14, 2009. After that, XP will continue getting security updates, paid support, web support, and Knowledge Base support until April 8, 2014.

    The really major problems in Windows XP stopped only after SP2 was released, on August 25, 2004. That means we have gotten only 3 years of good use from Windows XP. Most got good use from XP after SP1 was released on September 9, 2002. However, until August 2004, you could have gotten good use from Windows 2000. You sure do bitch a lot.

    Let other people have the grief. Unless forced by circumstances, never move to a new version of Microsoft software until the second service pack is released. Or you could evaluate it yourself and make your own decision on when the free updates (not just Service Packs) have fixed your important bugs and problems. Or when 3rd party software and drivers have been updated for Vista.

    Microsoft seems to have delayed releasing an SP3 for Windows XP to try to discourage people from using Windows XP. That would fit your paranoid, ranting vision of Microsoft. Of course, it's possible that the good quality of XP SP2 and the FUD about Vista has caused MS to put Vista SP1 on higher priority than XP SP3.

    New versions of Linux are released to make a better OS. New versions of Microsoft Windows seem to have the purpose of 1) killing the old version and 2) using more CPU power so that it is necessary to buy new hardware. When you partner with Microsoft, you partner with a company that may sometimes choose to be your enemy, in my opinion. How long did it take to create insane your view of this world?