Time for a Vista Do-Over?

DigitalDame2 writes "'There's nothing wrong with Vista,' PC Mag editor-in-chief Lance Ulanoff tells a Microsoft rep at this year's CES. 'But you guys have a big problem on your hands. Perception is reality, and the perception is that Vista is a dud.' He goes on to confess that the operating system is too complex and burdened by things people don't need. Plus, Vista sometimes seems so slow. Ulanoff gives four suggestions for a complete Vista makeover, like starting with new code and creating a universal interface table. But will Microsoft really listen?"

Comments

Re:They can't, they don't want to, it would kill t

[Hatta]

Vista is in fact the move by MS to go to ONE base, no longer the 9X/NT seperation

Wasn't that XP? The last OS to use the 9x kernel was windows ME, 8 years ago.

Re:Nothing wrong

[WhiplashII]

I, on the other hand, had to buy a new laptop as a backup unit for a new office.

1) Nothing works the same as previous operating systems. Finding the "dumb" default so I could disable them took hours (such as "hide files so you can't fix problems" and "don't show extension to give spyware a chance"). I don't want to have to relearn everything just to add one computer.
2) The new "alert" dialogs seem spiffy, until you realize that it make VNC stop working (it pauses all services) - while adding no real benefit, since the entire filesystem is writeable anyway. It doesn't help to disable the Microsoft way of doing things when the trojans can bypass it but the users can't. And don't tell me there's a way to disable it - I DON'T WANT TO LEARN A NEW SYSTEM FOR ONE NEW LAPTOP!
3) Then I installed Office 2007. Wow. That is bad. This is really bad. They did not improve a single part of it - instead they just moved everything around. Not only does it not provide any benefits, it requires 100% retraining! The file formats are, of course, not compatible - so moving one person to 2007 would require moving everyone. In addition, the one reason to use it for us was the ability to integrate with our intranet - but of course they broke compatibility with the file format. There isn't even an option to use the old format we needed, it is simply not there anymore.

So I wiped the machine. We will be using Linux running wine (and office 2000) for a short time, until we get all of our systems compatible with Open Office.

I run my companies IT departments, but I am the decision maker for three other companies in IT - and my friends that run other midsized companies are doing the same thing. Microsoft is simply to annoying to use in the modern business (at last mid-sized businesses).

Re:Nothing wrong

[Xofer D]

Can is a verb. I can peaches, I can raspberries, and apparently he cans his family's fecal matter. I've no idea what it has to do with the eee, and I'm not sure I want to.