Gates: Windows 7 won't be nearly as bad as Vista
Microsoft must spend some days gazing around in a stupor. The company continues to print money yet its most recent product launch of Vista fell on deaf ears. Microsoft of course wants money, but it also wants to be thought of as a leader in the software world, and with Vista it is definitely following...but who it's following, nobody knows.
Now Bill Gates has declared that Windows 7, the next release of the operating system, won't be nearly as bad as Vista:
We're hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I'm very excited about the work being done there...[which will require] lower power, take less memory [and] be more efficient.
Great! So...why buy Vista in the interim, which is by all accounts a memory and power hog, and is grossly inefficient? Customers seem to get Gates' logic, however, and have been buying Macs in droves which requires less power, less memory, is more efficient, and is a heck of a lot nicer to use. Thanks for the advice, Bill!
Matt Asay is general manager of the Americas and vice president of business development at Alfresco, and has nearly a decade of operational experience with commercial open source and regularly speaks and publishes on open-source business strategy. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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I gave some thought to buying an iMac so I went into my local Apple Store and tried a few out. I found bugs in two aplications. When I ask the store experts what was up they brushed it off as being bugs in the new Leopard release that would soon be fixed. I waited a month and went back to the store to try again. This time they assured me Leopard was patched and ready to go Two minutes into the Calendar program, another bug.
So you Apple die-hards (Matt, I'm talking to you here) that try to sell this load of "you know what" that Apple software is flawlees and Microsoft sucks, I say, buyer beware. Both have their strong and weak points but neither should be thrown on the scrap pile. Of course Microsoft will build the next "better" version of WIndows. Don't you think Apple will continue to release newer and "better" version of the MAC OS?
Listen, I like a lot of what Apple is doing. Their iPhone is a very well thought-out device that deserves praise and I'm sure many of their desktops and notbooks do also, but why this constant need to belittle Microsoft?
Play nice and be fare!
The more proficient you are with XP, the higher the learning curve for Vista. I often can't find what I want to do and have to search online to find how to do simple things. There seems to be no rhyme or reason behind many of the changes and you really need to be retrained if you're switching to Vista.
I tried to upgrade to Vista when it first came out and it sucked compared to XP. I tried again in Nov 2007 and they had made enough improvements for me to swich over. The biggest issue that I have add is there are not enough 64 bit drivers out there. I believe that this is the number one issue that Microsoft has. Because of the low cost for DDR2 memory, it is very easy for someone to upgrade to 8 GBs and you have to have 64 bit to do so.
Bottom line, I don't see any reason for people to upgrade their machines to Vista if everything is working in XP. But I don't see any reason for people to fear Vista if they are purchasing a new machine. And remember, memory is cheap!
According to both IDC and Gartner, the Mac's worldwide market share is still in the "Others" category, behind at least five other companies.
Business has apparently been slow to upgrade, but Vista-preinstalled dominates the consumer market.
Just watch a new product launch video on Apple's web site (go a head and pick any one of them) and you will see exactly what jmillshr06 is talking about. The audience chants and cheers like the mana was just rained down upon them.
I also find it interesting that Microsoft continues to develope software for the Apple OS (eg. Office) and must enjoy a good laugh whenn Apple runs their never ending commercials ditching Vista.
Again, they produce some very nice products and deserve a look, but if you really believe in your product, let it do the talking for you. You never see an industry leader compare their product to another. Only those trying to move up the food chain take this approach. For example, now that Toyota out-sells all over brands of cars, Ford and GM have started comparing their cars to Toyota's. I just don't like this approach to advertising. but that's me.
It's going to be fun watching Page and Brin defend themselves against the dragon the awoke when advertising starts running along most Word Documents. Apple is a non-starter. Gates sumed it up elquently when asked about the iphone; "we have no interest in developing a microsoft phone, we're interested in running on everybody's phone."