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Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years
adeelarshad82 writes "Windows Vista lost market share last month for the first time in almost two years, a sign that users are already abandoning the oft-ridiculed operating system in favor of the new Windows 7. According to Web metrics firm Net Applications, Vista dropped 0.2 percentage points during September to end the month at an 18.6% slice of the operating system pie. Windows 7, meanwhile, gained 0.3 percentage points, its biggest one-month gain since Microsoft began handing out the new OS to the public in January 2009. Windows 7 powered an estimated 1.5% of all computers that connected to the Internet last month, also a record."
and Stupid Fucking Dell for refusing to sell me XP when I bought this shitty laptop.
Stupid Fucking me for not buying a Mac.
FTFY.
Projector not working? No, it can't possibly be that you forgot to hit Fn+F8; IT MUST BE VISTA!
If users are not able to find the options to do the things they want to do, maybe your operating system is not ready for prime time.
Stuff running slow? It's certainly not that a GAZILLION processes are running at the same time, along with the spyware you've accumulated from using IE to surf for porn and free stuff; IT MUST BE VISTA!
You're damn right it must be Vista. That doesn't happen to me on Arch (and I'm running a fully blinged out KDE 4 install on a Pentium D, fer cryin' out loud). It doesn't happen to my girlfriend's Mac that she's had for seven years. Yet it happens to every fucking one of my Windows using friends, family, clients, and acquaintances.
Now why do you suppose that is?
The killer features for me are the new tricks in Aero (the maximize and minimize features are solid)
You're on a forum full of people who use Compiz, Kwin, and Aqua, and you're sitting here talking about... Aero? GTFO.
and the refinements done in wireless networking (which finally feel as integrated as wired has been since forever).
Oh yes, I saw the "refinements" in the networking interface.
Hey, I finally got my first freak! Took you long enough!
It wouldn't be so bad, but (in technical terms, at least), user interfaces are what Microsoft do well. I don't have a good word to say about MS on the whole, but aside from two or three glaring exceptions, they do seem to have a knack for making things accessible to the less technical end of the user spectrum. So when someone tells me that if they couldn't even get that part right, I have to wonder what horrors lurk elsewhere.
It's not that they did a bad job with the user interface... it's that, until Obama came along, people were just afraid of change. Let's all hope that with Obama in office, people can finally accept the change that has been brought to their computer interfaces.
These Microsoft death watches have become almost as cliche as the annual YOTLD penguasms. Yes, Vista sucked just like ME, but so what? In both cases users were able to stay with/fall back to the previous OS version and wait for MS to get it right. I'm betting Win7 will see a large and rapid uptake just like XP did.
Waiting around for the competition to fail is not a winning strategy. Linux had a chance with the Vista debacle and blew it - as evidenced by Linux's share of the OS pie still hovering at around 1%.
Until the Linux community realizes that it is the state of the apps holding back adoption of the OS and decides to do something about it, Linux will never gain a significant share of the pie.
Even with the Vista debacle, Microsoft's total share of the OS pie (win98, winME, winNT, win2000, winXP, and Vista) is still 92.71%. Hell, Linux barely beat out Windows 2000 for market share!
Power does not corrupt - power attracts the corrupt.