New marketing techniques for Vista...

I'm not planning on migrating to Vista anytime soon.

Seems to be what MS thinks all their customers look like.

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Microsoft is too little too late in promoting Vista. While I don't personally find it to be as bad as a lot of people make it out to be, if I didn't need to get a new system I wouldn't have bothered. There's really nothing that compelling about Vista compared to XP that warrants the upgrade. All the interesting bits, aside from Aero, were hurled overboard to try and keep the SS Vista afloat during development. So it's basically XP, with a bunch of UI elements made to (poorly) resemble OS X, and Aero, which is a poorly done copy of OS X's Quartz system. They didn't even have the decency to copy one of the best features from OS X: Expose. That Flip 3D thing is a joke. Of course I still think the Windows UI has been all downhill ever since Windows95. I rather liked, and even preferred, the old Windows 3.x interface.

There's just nothing about Vista that makes it a compelling upgrade over XP is the crux of it however. If they had kept WinFS around, and not made it a part of SQL Server, that might have been something to promote. Aero isn't enough on its own.

I was wondering
If Vista is good
why do they need to come out
with " Windows 7 " next year ?

While Vista users with present decade, quality equipment are enjoying the great features of Vista, as I am, those that chose to purchase their computer equipment as if they were buying "home theater in a box", are not. For every $300 "Complete Computer System!", (or something similar), that was hawked to the unsuspecting computer-users community, there was one unhappy Vista user. Gee, I wonder why? Could it be the outrageously underpowered components that unscrupulous manufactures used? Could it be that these same, cheap built computers would have had a difficult time running XP? Or do we simply take the easier path to blame the most convenient suspect? Microsoft.

Don't like Vista? Fine, go to Linux, XP or even back to Win 98... But stop bellyaching. Vista is a great product, much more advanced than XP would or could ever be.

Of course this is only my opinion but as usual, I'm right.

Sheesh!

I recently bought a laptop which runs Vista Home Premium. It's certainly a bit faster than my old XP SP2 machine (which I still have) and there are other features which I like but I am appalled at the amount of Windows software that will run unde XP but not under Vista. So far, for that reason, I prefere XP.