While I will admit I don't care for Steve Ballmer, it doesn't make much sense to criticize him. He is doing his job. Sure Vista is a turd, but it's not like he can stand up in front of an audience and admit that.
For those of you who are happy with Vista I say good for you. I'm glad you like Vista. You paid for it, and if it does what you want and expect then I suppose you are getting your money's worth.
Consider this though... A typical Vista installation takes up twice the hard drive space, needs twice the RAM to function, and doesn't really offer much in return. Linux has proven that you don't need such steep hardware requirements to run 3D eye candy, and I see no other compelling new features in Vista that I can't live without.
I don't hate Vista. I just don't see any compelling reason to want it. For the features that Vista offers there is no reason why Microsoft couldn't have made it run smoothly on 1 gig of ram and a single core 2 ghz processor. If Linux can do that why can't Vista? My conclusion is sloppy coding. If I'm shopping for a new computer I can save a ton of money on hardware if my operating system requires less in the first place. This is where Linux shines, and the main reason why people are still demanding XP. Vista may be a really nice OS, but if I have to spend several hundred dollars more for a PC that can run it, then I'm not interested.
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While I will admit I don't care for Steve Ballmer, it doesn't make much sense to criticize him. He is doing his job. Sure Vista is a turd, but it's not like he can stand up in front of an audience and admit that.
For those of you who are happy with Vista I say good for you. I'm glad you like Vista. You paid for it, and if it does what you want and expect then I suppose you are getting your money's worth.
Consider this though... A typical Vista installation takes up twice the hard drive space, needs twice the RAM to function, and doesn't really offer much in return. Linux has proven that you don't need such steep hardware requirements to run 3D eye candy, and I see no other compelling new features in Vista that I can't live without.
I don't hate Vista. I just don't see any compelling reason to want it. For the features that Vista offers there is no reason why Microsoft couldn't have made it run smoothly on 1 gig of ram and a single core 2 ghz processor. If Linux can do that why can't Vista? My conclusion is sloppy coding. If I'm shopping for a new computer I can save a ton of money on hardware if my operating system requires less in the first place. This is where Linux shines, and the main reason why people are still demanding XP. Vista may be a really nice OS, but if I have to spend several hundred dollars more for a PC that can run it, then I'm not interested.