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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.
Yeah I've been shooting at it for like 3 years now and still haven't hit it, so I guess I will just keep on missing it. Seriously I've never even installed it on a system, and have ripped it out of like 30. I really doubt it will be missed anymore than say polio, or whooping cough.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Yep, two of my scanners died in Vista. At work we can afford to order new ones. At home, Microsoft lost a customer to Linux.
A customer who happens to be an IT manager with a newfound respect for FOSS and a dislike for complex licensing.
This is the problem with anti-MS zealotry. There are a LOT of cool improvements in Vista which any geek would appreciate, many of which are not present in Linux. For example, per application volume control, network and disk access priority levels for processes, superfetch etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Windows_Vista All those have been swept under the carpet of twitter style 'lalalala M$' discussion and moderation. This is not really a news for nerds site.
This space for rent.
Yup, I second that. I've used Vista and 2008 server, and the volume control is the ONLY improvement.
Then you guys are not paying to much attention the features. My favorite feature is the new video stack, which got further improvements in Win7. The video memory is now virtualized, just like what people have been doing to the main memory. No more fighting for video memories between two directx applications. You don't even have to reboot after installing the video driver. Aren't that an important improvement to server especially? Also the UAC IS an improvement over XP/2003, which makes running as lower privileged user much less painful. For server 2008, hyper-v is the most important improvement over virtual-server, let alone new IIS and terminal server improvements. Talking about volume control is the ONLY improvement!? And that is not possible in XP, which requires the new sound stack.
The number of people such as yourself is growing in surprising numbers. It is getting to the point, however, that IT pros without some Linux knowledge/experience are viewed as somewhat limited in their scope and skill set. After all. Linux is FREE. Get a book or two, read some forums, install it on a machine somewhere. The knowledge is as free as the software.
I suspect that what he means (and I know this'll probably be modded down) is that Vista does have some positive aspects to it, which are totally overwhelmed by the crappy aspects. They're trying to make Windows 7 essentially Vista where they've cut back on the crappiness so that one can (hopefully) appreciate the positive attributes. So they think once we're all happy with Windows 7, we'll look back on Vista and identify all the nice things about it (which are also in Windows 7), magically forgetting that it ever had huge, whopping, enormous problems.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
After all. Linux is FREE.
So are a lot of other operating systems.
Solaris, OpenSolaris, Nexenta to name just a few, and they are just as good as Linux....
Some people even prefer them over Linux...
I just happen to be one of them...