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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.'"
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More FUD from Communist linsux advocate Zonk. The only ones advocating Microsoft eliminating Vista are the communist linsux/open-sores retards.
There is 0% chance of Microsoft abandoning Vista. If you don't like Vista, guess what, don't use it. Everyone I know that uses Vista likes it. I personally switched back from Ubuntu to Windows because I like Vista so much. It probably sucks on older and slower machines but on my own machine everything works great. For gaming and digital entertaining Vista is the best OS available. Nothing comes close.
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.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
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.
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!
What day is it? Could you please tell me?
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I've been using it for months now and beside being a little different than XP and a bit slower it's a decent product.
As usual I wouldn't suggest people run out and get it, but in general it's easily better than XP.
The phenomonon of Vista haters simply don't have a basis in reality. We have people who dislike the harder to crack Vista, we have those who have aged systems and want XP performance in Vista on a 1 ghz machine with 256 megs ram and we have people who just don't like change.
On the positive, it's VASTLY more secure in practical application. That doesn't mean under the pressure of hackers you'd want to be in Vista, by you'd certainly be better off as an average user with Vista. I've been running for months with absolutely no spyware and that's just about impossible under XP. Since malware is my only major complaint with MS operation systems I find that the majority of people giving their 'honest' opinion about Vitsa just don't know what they are talking about.
The search is pretty awesome also, much more visually appealing and better placed than google desktop search, though I think they sued to get the same functionality at this point. In any case you'll find many instances where the Vista search will produce more better results than google desktop, so I find that impressive also. Windows has always lacked a good search and now it doesn't, now the performance hit may be much for most common users, but for those of us with achives of files it's pretty useful.
Vista also has a nice look overall, probably a bit better than most Linux distros.
So far my truly biggest complaint is that I can't get a program to display foldersize, which should come as default as hdd's have gotten so large, but then again Linux does not seems to come with foldersize out of the box.
I tried several Linux distros before settling on Vista mostly because the Linus distros didn't really have quality software, and while I could spend my time trying to review every piece of Linux software, the minor advantages of Linux are not worth that investment of my time. In most cases Vista was able to run faster downloads than Linux, but only by a margin small enough to not matter. However, when running say, 20 torrents at a time I did see better performance under Linux, but of course, that's running a Win32 client since all Linux torrent client suck ass or run slow as dirt with many torrents. Utorrent however works will under wine, though it's interface is a bit sketchy through Wine. That and the fact Vista has FoxIT PDF reader and all Linux PDF readers have bugs that make them scroll very slow, perhaps they've fixed that, but really how do you ship an OS with broken PDF readers. Well I supopsed in Linux's defense at least it ships with a PDF reader, albiet a slow one.
I really don't see what there is to not like that much about Vista, sure it's slower, but what MS realease isn't slower. It's certainly more secure in almost every aspect than XP and not just theoretically more secure, but in real life you don't get malware nearly as much. AND, that's with user account control turned off the entire time.
I think people just don't want to learn a new interface because otherwise the rejection of Vista is just stupid. It's XP with decent security, what's not to like.
Maybe you don't like the dynamic TCP crap, but it works, my network video's play lag free over my crappy wireless connection through media player and they won't through VLC, and thats VLC folks, a damn good video player (my default except in those cases).
The only thing Vista really needs is a modern file system to improve multithreaded data stream peformance. That is, having many data streams at once slows Vista (or XP) down much more than it should and I'm pretty convinved it's the file system.
So why downplay the most secure MS OS release, by far. They did a good job, they've upped securty to a near Linux/Mac level. Have you heard of any major viruses ripping Vista a new one. I haven't and I certainly hav
I'm a developer at a small company, our newest batch of computers came with Vista (just for the devs first, so we can develop with Vista in mind for future releases). Besides the first week of getting used to things, Vista isn't as bad as you guys make it out to be. After using it since April or so, I like it better than XP, and plan on switching my home desktop over soon. I realize this is a Linux community, and it's basically a given that we must make Windows out to be the devil of the PC, but I doubt Vista is going anywhere. It's really a pretty quality OS.
Ha, give me a break. You moronic linux zealots are farking clueless for the most part. Blinded by your ridiculous lust and loyalt for a product that more often than not takes more time and gives you more heartache than XP or Vista ever would. Some of us don't want to be slaves to our computers like you. Get over yourselves and realise that windows has a place in the OS world. People who want ease of use, no fiddling with config files, and want to develop art/applications/websites with some of the best tools in the world.... will not use a linux based OS. Believe me, Vista has its issues, i despise some of them. But the enormity of the thing and the fact that it pretty much works straight out of the box is an impressive feat. So mod me down, and continue modding up the tool bags who merely say idiotic statements purely because they are anti windows. A lot of slashdot's articles can be insightful, but as soon as something MS or Windows related pops up most of you people lose all reason and salivate at the mouth. I guess i can take solace in the fact that i could probably beat the enire lot of you up on my own :)
Bullshit. Office 2007 does not use significantly more real estate than other versions of office:
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/04/17/577485.aspx
The problem is your company. Locking down screen resolutions is retarded. Quit and find or start a company that doesn't do that.
Second, learn the fucking keys. Press Alt, release it and they are documented on the damn screen. Jeez.
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/02/14/531801.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/02/23/537860.aspx