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Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product
Shadow7789 writes "No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC World has declared that Windows Vista is the most disappointing product of 2007. Quoting: 'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?... No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'"
Show me a single claim from Apple that says that
My post didn't imply that it was Apple claims. Nonetheless, hype & hysteria around a product prior to launch will create dissapoinment if that product doesn't live up to expectations.
As you're a known pro-apple troll, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask for a source for your statement "you're a known anti-Apple troll".
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Hi, I'm Cory R. King from the Planet Earth (aka "The Real World"), year 2007,
Here in the real world, I use Vista because it is significantly more secure than XP, it looks much nicer than XP, it has many little improvements that add up to a big win, and it is much faster on the same hardware.
Sadly, your problems with Vista don't apply to those of us here on earth who use computers as tools. Quite frankly, I dont really care about Microsoft's dominance, they make a great product at a good price so I buy it, is there a problem with that? While I do not like DRM, it is not forced on me and it is not the fault of Microsoft. "Open Standards" are highly overrated and usually mean "we want free stuff from microsoft".
Do you have any specific problems with Vista that don't involve religion?
Are you fucking retarded? The 32-bit memory limit is not Microsoft's problem, that's math: 2^32 = 4GB. That 4GB has to cover *ALL* physically addressed memory in the system, including mapped memory for devices. The average graphics card now has 256 MB vidmem. Further the type of people who want >2GB sysmem, are also the people who want nice graphics cards, which can easily boost them to 512 - 1GB of total vidmem (keep in mind SLI/Crossfire). The rest of your claims are retarded too. Superfetch uses *idle*, as in *unused*, memory to store apps. If that space becomes wanted for working apps, the Superfetch has cached is ejected. I'm not MSFT fan boy, as a matter of fact I don't like a lot of what they do (mostly their monopolistic practices), but don't make technically unsound claims just you can bash something you don't like. Who the fuck modded this person up.