C|Net shows no love for Vista yet
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 27.11.2007
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversOh dear! It seems that there are no allies at CNet when it comes to Windows Vista. I can only imagine that their IT department is still firmly attached to Windows XP on all their clients (except of course some very poor test machines).
Anyway, a bright spark at CNet HQ has clocked Vista in at Nr 10 on their article: Top ten terrible tech products, with the Sony Rootkit fiasco just ahead of Vista at Nr 9. The list even includes the Sinclair C5 as the worst tech product, will Sir Clive ever be forgiven for that?
Do our active members even know what a C5 is?
Heres what CNet have to say about Vista: Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its predecessor's reintroduction deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that quietly has a downgrade-to-previous-edition option introduced for PC makers deserves to be classed as terrible technology. Any operating system that takes six years of development but is instantly hated by hordes of PC professionals and enthusiasts deserves to be classed as terrible technology.
Windows Vista conforms to all of the above. Its incompatibility with hardware, its obsessive requirement of human interaction to clear security dialogue box warnings and its abusive use of hated DRM, not to mention its general pointlessness as an upgrade, are just some examples of why this expensive operating system earns the final place in our terrible tech list.
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Comments(9)
that right
i realy wonder what they were doing during all these 5 years vista
is only an eye candy
if windows vista was given an additional years for development it will be better but know
even if it is rtm it is sill beta there is a lot of issue specialy with performance
the is the rightest openion i read os far about os vista. it really deserves to be in the
catagory of worest products.
for what it's worth, c/net totally hated xp 6 months after it launched also. calimed bad
driver availability, terrible built-in security, program compatibility, etc.
kind of
sounds familiar, doesn't it?
if we had to wait till sp2 for xp for it to become a decent os, windows vista can be
skipped, windows 7 will be the decent os (unless it's warmed over vista and we know that
won't taste good).
i don't hate vista, in fact i find the technologies introduced in it to be excellent.
performance wise, it is crap right now, and will be probably until a second service pack.
i wish m$ would just kill the current nt kernal and redo it. if we had to wait 5 years for
vista, then i won't hold my breath to see windows 7 in 2 1/2-3 years like promised. if
they keep on building on the same kernal performance is going to suffer. they need to
rework the kernal from scratch not "from the ground up" like they said they did in
vista. your still going to have compatability problems because manufacturers still make
horrid software and drivers, and could care less about new tech, linux included.
manufacturers come out with a basic functioning driver then take 3 years to refine it to a
point where it works seamlessly with the current most popular os. then a new os comes out
and driver support is terrible.
performance always comes down to drivers and
manufacturers optimizing their code to take advantage of new tech, and sadly nobody does
this until the os is very mature. most of this can be blamed on m$ for their poor
development cycle. it takes them 5 years to develop a new os?! you have cycles like that
and you wonder why nobody can make decent software for your os.
why does everyone have to bash windows vista? it may be crappy and it may f'ck your
computer all up but can you stop annoying people here who probably don't really want to
hear your opinion, because they know what everybody says.
i agree, vista isn't
the best product, but you don't have to be loud about it and everybody goes like "not
that again!"
microsoft cheated and raped me out of $1200 dollars. me & my 3 pcs got fvcked badly by
the shitty vista ultimate. i am mad as hell! i am sure that many of the early vista
adapters are also mad as hell too!
it is not the opinions that we want you to
hear. it is our angry screamings that we want microsoft to hear. we are demanding a real
working software product for our money.
the main issue with building a whole new kernal is it would probably be built with the
same bloatware that all ms apps are built with these days.
everyone needs to go
back to assembly language for os development, but it anit gonna happen. to see a great
example, check out menuetos made in x86 asm, no stupid dlls, no bloatware, just pure
performance in a 871kb package. thats right 871k, not gigabytes, not megabytes, kilobytes!
it can run tcp/ip, web, emulators, apps, games, quake, etc. it may not be the
answer, but it is an example of the answer!
so no, if they re-did the kernal it
would probably weight in at near a gig for the kernal alone knowing ms. tack on drivers,
support dlls, etc. probably a few gigs.
there really does not appear to be an
answer in sight, ideas, ideas, ideas, but no answers.
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By TRAX O2 on 28.11.2007 - 02:11