Microsoft: Vista is so misunderstood!
The Register has a great article deconstructing Microsoft's "Five Misunderstandings about Vista" (Recently pulled down, but not before The Register captured the document.)
Apparently, Vista has been slow out of the gate because it's misunderstood in five key areas: 1) User Account Control, 2) Image Management, 3) Display Driver Model, 4) Windows Search, and 5) 64-bit architecture.
Please join me in shedding a tear for Redmond....
Whatever the validity of Microsoft's five-point discussion (and The Register largely rips these up), the biggest problem with Vista's adoption doesn't even make the list: Performance:
What about performance? In my view, this is far and away the primary problem users have with Vista. It is not in any sense a misunderstanding, however Microsoft spins it. It is bewilderment: why does my new machine, which should be fast, spend so much time spinning its little bagel when I want to get on with my work?
Amen. The reality is that Vista is almost certainly not as bad as detractors suggest (myself included), nor as good and faultless as Microsoft suggests. Regardless, Microsoft may have to wait until Windows 7 to redeem itself. Will it be too late?
I'm a microsoft fan. I've been running windows since Windows 2.0. Vista is just terrible and I rue the day I'll have to install it because support has been pulled on XP.
Vista does a lot of nice things, as it states in the magazine and I have never suffered any real performance issues. People get so brainwashed from the media they can't see past what the news says.
I've enjoyed vista since it came out and will continue to promote it.
If your having performance issues, get a better computer. Or maybe perhaps we should always stick with celeron processors and 512 mb ram and build operating systems around that. Go linux if you have an issue
I cannot speak to a poorly configured pc as mine seems to be optimally configured (hp2050). I would imagine any pc, regardless of the OS, if poorly configured would run like a dog.
For what I do, I want/need every horse power my CPU can spit out. I'll stick to XP as long as I can, and if forced to go the Vista route, I am considering (seriously) going Mac.
Too late for what? The survival of Windows? You are joking of course. Microsoft owns the business world. Visit almost any business in the USA (or any other country for that matter) and what OS will they be using?
Maybe it's just that some people just hate to see a company succeed!
Listen up all you Microsoft bashers, Vista will make its way in the world, one PC at a time. It?s just that simple.
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by C_G_K
May 20, 2008 8:36 AM PDT
- I am a computer consultant who works with people using windows O.S.'s every day. Vista is full of bugs and was released before it was ready. It is a bloated performance hog. It is loaded with DRM that will potentially limit users access to their own digital content.
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