Vista at Risk of Being Bypassed by Businesses

narramissic writes "With Windows 7 due in late 2009 or 2010, many businesses may choose to wait it out rather than make the switch to Vista. According to some analysts, Vista uptake at this point really depends on how good Vista SP1 (due in Q1, 2008) is. If it doesn't smooth over all the problems, companies are much more likely to stick with XP. And that holds especially true for those businesses that follow the every-other-release rule." Note for Microsoft: Allow us to natively disable trackpads.

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Show me a good review of Vista.

[Erris]

There are real problems and it's a development model problem. Cooperation can't be counted on outside of free software, so everyone has to reinvent every wheel and applications bloat away. M$ has compounded this fundamental problem with digital restrictions and security theater instead of addressing real security and user needs. Vista is a disaster.

Everyone who reviews Vista comes away angry. Vistit the Vista Failure Log and see for yourself. Editors who hyped Vista have publically admitted their mistake. It's no better than XP and is in many ways worse.

Non free development does not work. The faster you move away, the more money, time and effort you save.

Re:Show me a good review of Vista.

[jcr]

It's so cute when the microserfs show up to defend their company. Will even one of you ever do so with your name on the post?

-jcr

Re:Show me a good review of Vista.

[Erris]

I've used many operating systems and other commercial software products, and most of them worked just fine.

Sure, but non free is always that way and never better. The sinking of Vista shows that there's some acceptable pain threshold. The problem with non free software is that it will always tend to be just below that threshold. A software owner that makes something that does just what the user wants will never have another sale. A software owner that makes software better than the user demands will have spent too much money. Apple, Sun and others have done better when forced to compete. M$, with it's monopoly position, has driven the pain threshold sky high. Industry is finally rejecting M$, so we will see more reasonable software in the future but non free software will always go where M$ took it. If society chooses another master instead of freedom, that other dominant owner will be in a position to pull the same stupid stunts M$ has. Ultimately in the non free world, users are not customers they are a product delivered to advertisers and vendors.

Re:What is so bad about Vista?

[jcr]

it's far from unsecurable.

Wake up and smell the botnets, sunshine.

-jcr