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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.
So you won't have to look far to see Vista...
I miss Windows ME.
What? Why is everyone looking at me like that?
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
...that Windows 7 will be horrific enough to make us miss Vista? Wow.
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
That will only matter if we don't buy more ammo!
You know, that sounds like a threat to me...
Watch the Teaser Trailer for "The Lightning Thief" Her
But just give me time to reload.
And I plan on missing Windows 7, as well.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
(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.
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How exactly will I miss something that I have never used?
This proves how incompetent the /. story moderators are. The actual quote says nothing about MISSING Vista. It only says you'll appreciate it. The idea is this: Vista has an overall bad user experience, so all new features of Vista are generally lumped into the "bad" category. With an operating system that corrects those flaws, yet keeps what are supposedly nice innovations, you'll eliminating "guilt by association", and people can appreciate them for what they are.
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
"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."
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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.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
As an end user, I don't want to notice my OS at ALL.
Only because we haven't been practicing our aim enough.
And what sort of idiot comment is that really from someone at the company? "You'll miss the old product we're replacing." I mean his entire comments are ridiculous. We'll miss the "good things" implying that Windows 7 has removed them.
Surely saying "All that DRM crap that stole your resources and restricted you in Vista... That IS missing from Windows 7" would be the only GOOD thing to miss.
Microsoft has finally succeeded at copying the Apple Reality Distortion Field!
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.
A profitable business scheme for Microsoft is calling an update to a product by an entirely new name.
Another profitable scheme is charging the full price for an upgrade, as though it is a totally new product.
My understanding is that releasing versions of products that aren't finished is also profitable for Microsoft, because then most customers buy new versions immediately. Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows ME, and DOS 3.0 are three examples I think of immediately.
Yes, and history will redeem George W. Bush too.
Good luck running your computer with Windows on it...
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
It costs more, much of the time, to stagnate your career and narrow your opportunities. This "adage" is not reason it shouldn't be done. It is the U in uncertainty and the D in doubt. Why don't you say what you REALLY think? Should people not learn to use Linux? If no, why not? If yes, then why do you feel the need to point out the ridiculous?
"Nothing is free if you spend time doing it." Okay, we get it. Stop having sex with your wife, girlfriend, boyfriend, left or right hand... it's TOO EXPENSIVE because it's not free... don't sleep because it's such a waste of your time. In fact, never stop moving and definitely don't learn anything new because it's not free.
Seriously, what are you trying to say exactly?
I hate it when people try to make this argument...
"There is no reason they couldn't have added that feature to version X, rather than waiting till version Y"
Of course there is a reason, nobody thought of doing it until version Y!!! The creators of version X lacked either the technology, the vision, or the creativity to add that feature.
How about we just say: " There is no reason that the ancient Egyptians couldn't have built spaceships"
They could have built amazing spaceships, if only they had the technology, the vision, and the 3000 years of human experience to decide that we needed to build spaceships.
I find it interesting that the Apple reality distortion field works outwardly on others, while the Microsoft reality distortion field works inwardly on themselves.
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