Vista's dead: Microsoft kills an OS and no one cares
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversFor anyone still burning a torch for Windows Vista, its time is rapidly approaching. Buy now or forever hold your peace.
I can't say I'm surprised at how any of this has turned out. After all, Vista's launch was, to be charitable, rocky. When it first arrived just before Christmas 2006, it was late, bloated and, for some, expensive. It may have looked pretty on the outside, but critics quickly pounced on it for driver incompatibility, sluggish performance on mainstream -- and sometimes even high-end -- hardware and enough bugs to fill a family-sized tent on a weekend camping expedition. Microsoft didn't help matters with its ill-fated "Vista Capable" designation -- a public relations debacle that convinced buyers who were too lazy to read the fine print that Vista would run just as well on hardware barely suited for XP.
Since first impressions are often the only things that matter in today's attention-deficit world, Vista got stuck with a reputation it's never quite been able to shake. Which is somewhat unfortunate given how nicely Vista has padded Microsoft's bottom line since then. It's sold hundreds of millions of copies and it runs on the vast majority of laptops on display at the average big box electronics retailer. Service Packs and updates have fixed most of the major bugs and security gaps and more devices than ever are Vista-friendly now that hardware manufacturers have gotten into the driver game. Vista hasn't been the failure its detractors long said it was.
Carmi Levy: Wide Angle Zoom (200 px)But memories are funny things, and despite its market performance over the past two-and-a-half years, no one seems willing to forgive Vista for being inadequately baked and improperly messaged when it first arrived. So Microsoft, recognizing that the era of the operating system is past middle age, is killing Vista. There's been no press release, of course, no official announcement that it's ending production -- because it's still churning out retail boxes and pre-loaded builds for OEMs just as it always has. But last week's announcement of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program signals the likely death knell for Vista.
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Comments(10)
remember winme
that was the best win9x operating system ever.
long life linux and foss. micro$ will soon be dead. just sell your shares. now !!!
winme introduced system restore which is one of the most useful features you can have.
winme was not all bad, just most of it.
i hope people realise that having just unix derivatives and gpl licensed software would
not work in the type of world we live in, businesses and corporations require support to
be there on-hand when and where they need it, and with unix it just isn't there in large
enough quantities to be a viable alternative (yet).
running xp professional sp3 on two machines and vista home premium on two machines.
vista is a lot faster and a lot more useful. they forgot to tell anyone that you had to
add "vista manager" to bring the monster under control. works fine. will use it for
years.
trying out vista for the first time a couple years ago i hated it. i heard alot of bs
about it and then went back to xp sp2. its funny because i am using vista home premium x64
atm and i like it. vit only using 830 megs of ram right now. all games run great and
haven't had any bsod's or anything else, but i do have some system lag but i just
upgraded to vista sp2 or that may be the problem, i might go back to sp1.
linux - borrrinngggg
vista rih d:
nothing last for ever
sell quality not quantity
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long life linux and foss. micro$ will soon be dead. just sell your shares. now
!!!
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it seems like yesterday when i first read those words, yet it was
almost 10 years ago. windows will be the dominant os for years to come. none of the
current flavors of linux will make a dent in ms's marketshare, because only it
workers/students and enthusiasts are willing to use the os on their desktop.
i'll never understand why people who love linux feel like windows needs to fail for linux
to be successful. linux is a good os but it's ui isn't there yet (no ubuntu hasn't
gotten there yet either).
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Already happened
By Vic on 03.07.2009 - 02:07