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.'"

Comments

Re:Boo Vista, A common theme for 2007?

[toadlife]

Vista sucks!!!!1

Will you be my friend?

Re:disappointing, it is relative!

[garry_k]

Why would anyone expect that a more complicated and considerably more secure operating system would be faster! It's pretty foolish to equate speed with better. It will require a better computer to run it at the same speed as an older simpler OS. If you could have loaded XP on a P1 with 64 meg of ram and compared it with Windows 95, obviously Win95 would have blown the doors off of XP. But nobody today is so stupid to say that Win95 was a better OS. Get real people, you want a better OS, more secure and you want it to run faster....sheeesh, maybe you want the government to drop income tax too!

Re:What about the iPhone?

[tsa]

The iPhone certainly deserves the #1 spot in this list.

Re:Grow the fuck up please

[coryking]

Fair game Mr. Raven Sir,

You know what sucks more than Vista? Linux! And the best parts is, Linux isn't even worth it's price and it is free! How do you like those apples? Linux cannot even compete when it is free! The only reason it is more popular than FreeBSD or OpenBSD is because of paid shills like you. Which is a shame, because FreeBSD is a much more stable, well documented system.

My Question for you, Mr. Raven is how do you get paid by the FSF to make these comments when your whole damn operating system is free!?

Of course, I'm joking about the paid shills (maybe) but I'm serious about linux (for all values of $DISTRO) being a shitty operating system. FreeBSD is far better. Vista is much better than them on, at least on the desktop.

Re:I didn't find it disappointing

[sm62704]

I dislike Microsoft as much as the next slash-dotter

I'm the next slashdotter and no you don't or you would never have bought an xbox in the first place. Microsoft is the king of slow, bloated, badly designed, buggy, overpriced software and I see no reason, other than user testimonials, why the hardware wouldn't be slow, bloated, badly designed, buggy, and overpriced as well, save for user testamonials. And you'll find slashdot posts that say Vista is a good OS (I wouldn't know, I'm using XP and Mandriva)

-mcgrew