Microsoft Exec Says, "You'll Miss Vista"

Oracle Goddess writes "'Years from now, when you've moved on to Windows 7, you'll look back at Windows Vista fondly. You'll remember its fabulous attributes, not its flaws.' That's the opinion of Steve Guggenheimer, vice president of the OEM division at Microsoft. 'I think people will look back on Vista after the Windows 7 release and realize that there were actually a bunch of good things there,' Guggenheimer said in a recent interview. 'So it'll actually be interesting to see in two years what the perception is of Vista.' A dissenting opinion comes from Bob Nitrio, president of system builder Ranvest Associates, doesn't believe organizations that skipped Vista will ever regret their decision. 'I don't think for a second that people are suddenly going to love Windows 7 so much that they will experience deep pangs of regret for not having adopted Vista,' said Nitrio. If I had to bet, I'd go with Bob's take on it." My first thought was, Steve meant Windows 7 is designed to be virtually unusable as payback for all the complaints about Vista, but I might be biased.

Comments

Secretly...

[vertinox]

I miss Windows ME.

What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?

Re:Secretly...

[Ynot_82]

Never miss again, with the RJX-21 Laser Scope
http://xkcd.com/101/

Re:Secretly...

[peragrin]

if it runs Windows ME you just might.

Re:Secretly...

[Flea of Pain]

What about the best Windows version of all...Windows CEMENT!!

Re:Secretly...

[easyTree]

Bah, it's not about the OS, it's about the apps: Word, for example

Do they mean...

[FlyByPC]

...that Windows 7 will be horrific enough to make us miss Vista? Wow.

Re:Do they mean...

[NotBornYesterday]

You'll remember its fabulous attributes, not its flaws.'

Maybe he is mocking and deriding his end users by implying that they forget faster than an amnesia-stricken goldfish, and is counting on their short attention spans to distract them from ... OOOH! Look! Something shiny!

Miss?

[The_church_of_funzie]

That will only matter if we don't buy more ammo!

"You'll miss Vista"

[mayberry42]

Wait! So, they're saying Windows 7 is actually going to be worse?

Threat

[gambit3]

You know, that sounds like a threat to me...

I may miss Vista

[mcmonkey]

But just give me time to reload.

Alas, poor Vista

[Anonymusing]

(holding the empty remains of a Vista Ultimate package)

Alas, poor Vista! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent eye candy: he hath booted me on his disks a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rims at it. Here hung those dialog boxes that I have clicked I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your MP3s? your flashes of BSOD, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

Now get you to Windows 7's chamber, and tell her, let her Photoshop an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

Re:Alas, poor Vista

[Anonymous Coward]

What a piece of work is Vista!
How ignoble in reason! how infinite in file copy! in DRM, in jest, how unfinished and notorious!
in action how like a sloth! in apprehension how like BOB! the bane of the world!
the paragon of Windows! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Vista delights not me; no, nor Windows 7 neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so.

  To Vista, or not to Vista: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The BINGs and AEROs of outrageous programming,
Or to take arms against a sea of bugs,
And by SP9 end them? To die: to ACPI-sleep;
No more; and, by ACPI-sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand unnatural shocking bugs
That Vista is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to BSOD: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep-of-death(TM) what crashes may come
When we have shuffled off this half-baked OS,
Must give us pause. There's the respect
That makes calamity of so short battery life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of file copy time,
The oppressive DRM's wrong, the proud marketing contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd 64 bit love, the EU law's delay,
The insolence of Gate's office, and the shite of IE7
That patient users merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a LINUX kernel? who would hotfixes bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary UAC prompt,
But that the dread of something worse after Vista,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of BSOD's resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of [Continue] [Cancel] action. Soft you now!
The fair Stallman! Friar, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

Coaster

[sgt scrub]

Maybe occasionally, but my Vista coasters are used way more often then the WindowsME ones.

How?

[goober1473]

How exactly will I miss something that I have never used?

Re:How?

[ArsonSmith]

Well, sounds like you missed it to me.

"Years from now..."

[brennanw]

"Years from now, you'll look back at Vista and realise how horribly you wronged it. If only you'd known! If only you'd seen the truth! But it's too late now, because Vista is dead, it died alone and unloved, spurned by the coldness of your heart and your disdain for it's ungainly sincerity. Now you find yourself wedded to an operating system that is capable but distant, it's caresses mechanical and devoid of warmth. You'll spend your nights lying in its cold embrace and think 'oh! Vista! How I wish I'd stuck with you instead of reaching for the stars!' But it will be too late. Vista is gone, and all that remains is an echo of a memory that could have been."

Yes, some will look back fondly

[stox]

Vista has done more to promote the use of Linux in the Office than anything yet. We can only hope that Windows 7 continues this fine tradition.

Hes right!!! I will miss vista

[smd75]

I missed it alright. I didn't upgrade to vista, but went from XP to 7. Damn.

This can only mean one thing...

[phillymjs]

Microsoft has finally succeeded at copying the Apple Reality Distortion Field!

SAVE VISTA!

[David Gerard]

Microsoft has said it may ditch Vista the moment Windows 7 comes out! They've since backtracked - but we need to make sure they know our feelings.

Windows 7 is CASTRATED APPEASEMENT to soy latte-sipping girly-men who wish they owned a Mac. We want a REAL operating system. An operating system that PERSONIFIES America's INDUSTRIAL MIGHT. That makes you feel AWE at the MAJESTY of the progress of its operation. VISTA is a monument to everything that makes us the country we are!

Like Chrysler, like Hummer, like Edsel - "Vista" is a name that will be remembered as the greatest operating system in Microsoft's history.

Just Say "No" To Seven -

SAVE VISTA!

Original blog post - Facebook group

"I fully support this initiative. My computer business employs 200 people; the best possible thing for it is to make sure Vista continues and goes forward." - M. Shuttleworth, London

"I can't tell you how much Vista has done for my business. So many people depend on it." - S. Jobs, Cupertino

"Vista is the one thing that will keep people seeking out and using systems that are at the forefront of technology. It's been the best thing for all of us." - L. Torvalds, Portland.

"I'm ... I'm touched. *sob* I didn't think anyone cared. You guys. Developers! *sob*" - S. Ballmer, Seattle.

Good luck...

[bashibazouk]

Good luck running your computer with Windows on it...

Friends, Linux Users, Slashdotters

[NeverVotedBush]

I come to bury Vista, not to praise it;
The evil that Gates does lives after him,
The BSOD is oft interred with Windows' bones,
So let it be with Vista ...

So ... Windows 7 is *worse* than Vista?

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine that.