Vista not a Dud…
…its just irrelevant. The operating system you use doesn’t matter much anymore, and arguably it shouldn’t.
I’m not defending Vista. In fact it seems like the perfect example of how Microsoft doesn’t understand where the computer industry is headed.
By the time Windows 7 is released the operating system should just be a minor personal preference like choosing Gnome vs. KDE.
Of course video games and specialized software will keep people on Windows. Luckily at least specialized software is migrating to the web very quickly. Video games will hopefully become more cross-platform in order to remain popular in a world where there’s actual competition in the operating system world.
I haven’t posted in a long time, and this is a really lame way to start posting again… expect some much more interesting posts in the near future.
Tags: navel gazing
July 25th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
And somehow Windows continues to have a 90% market share (http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9027558).
Hmmm~
July 25th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
@Alejandro:
Yeah I saw that. My point is that hardware makers (like Acer in the article I cited) should stop expecting new operating systems to be a big deal. New Google apps are a big deal. New version of Windows? *yawn*
August 7th, 2007 at 3:47 am
If you spent 5 years developing a new op system & you took most things away & peroduced a lame system called long horn & then vista i’d call you an idiot.Op systems do matter for security,stability etc etc.Hardware makers like acer are right we should expect something for our money not ms excuses. ta mick
August 10th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Vista is a dud why because it is, as more and more people realise this & go back xp.
August 10th, 2007 at 11:27 am
Perhaps I did get it wrong… at least the title of the post.
Because the OS doesn’t matter, Vista is a dud. Vista was built around the idea that the OS is still the most important piece of software on a computer. Now the browser is.
August 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am
why vista is a dud!
vista is a DUD !
THE DEATH KNELL OF VISTA HAS ALLREADY BEEN SOUNDED!!!!PROVING I WAS RIGHT ALL ALL ALLONG.To prove i’m right just look at the Amazon prices & you will see xp home $10 dearer than vista home.It has derfintely turned ugly!
With so many members of the elite!! at tech republic etc giving vista the thumbs up when in fact they were merely speculating.Please look at the evidence don’t take my word & you’ll see i’m right!!
Well Guys & Gals SORRY to dissapoint you all, recent testing has shown VISTA to be outperformed by XP by a whopping 15%!!A lot of it due to the way the op system is designed & it’s non functioning as an op system.As predicted vain attempts to rewrite source code at the last minute or lack of & reports of positive spin did not help the lame system. Recent release of vista has proven to a lot of people that it is a complete waste of time.VISTA=DUD!Guys & Gals i have been totally vindicated as my thread has tried to tell you the truth.While Other threads are simply speculating at tech republic.
MS have pretented to show by using terms like vista ready & packing features that people don’t realy need & using catch words like “killer product” with complete abandon when in fact it has been a complete DUD!
There are no real benefits attached.Compared to xp it is much slower.Heaps of people have tried the os & have gone back to XP just as i had predicted!
Microsoft also has attempted to cut
Support Time for Some Vista queries…
Vista will go the way of Windows ME and I think Microsoft knows it that is why they have allready announced a … Gee, do ya THINK MS knows Vista is a dud? …
When compared, test results actually show vista to be outperformed by xp.
Hey guys MS has finally admitted that VISTA IS A complete FAILURE !!!
Well,Well Heh Heh I have been totally vindicated!!!!!!!!!!!
Well hell nothing short of total vindication for me ,Bill Gates
admitting to vista failure & him stepping down due to vista being a DUD!
You have Acer chief admitting to vista being a failure & refusing to partake of it!
You also have people like Dell,Hp,& others refusing to use vista due to stability & security issues.Dell vista sales have been drastically curtailed as the company & others do not openly recommend use of vista in new systems.
Vista critical issues have not been fixed as redmond procrastinates.Sales of vista have been dwindling.
Vista performance testing is still woefull
as the”lame” system is licking it’s wounds
the death knell has allready been sounded!!
ta mick
August 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am
vista chief resigns due to vista failure
The reasons given for stepping down are related to Gates wanting to spend more time working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for which he’s been working part-time . But looking at recent events and the situation at Microsoft, you can’t help but wonder if that really is the (only) reason for Gates stepping down. With the company facing a number of issues, and being in the middle of the ever delaying Windows Vista and Office 2007 development cycle, I’m sure he could have waited and picked a better time for his announcement, say, after Windows Vista and Office 2007
I think the reason for Gates stepping down is that he is basically admitting his failure. I’m not sure if he is doing it himself, or if he’s being pressed by others to do it. But he, or others around him, have probably come to realize that his performance and his results as Chief Software Architect have not been very good in the last 3-5 years, and only seem to get worse. Gates himself has said that he feels very excited about things like voice recognition, tablet PC, unified filesystems and many other things that he feels that he still needs to help realize and it doesn’t make sense to me that someone who is excited about this would step down and go focus on unrelated things at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It seems to me that if he was really excited about his work at Microsoft, he’d want to stay. That’s not an unreasonable assumption to make for someone as passionate as Gates, if you ask me. It looks like it’s just not as fun anymore for Gates, not fun enough for him to want to stay, in any case.
One of the biggest failures of Gates is Windows Vista. When Windows Vista and Office 2007 miss their release dates, people often begin to blame Steve Ballmer. And as CEO, he has the ultimate responsibility, but the real guy in charge of Windows Vista is Bill Gates. Afterall, he was the Chief Software Architect, and the most senior technical guy responsible for making Vista development a success. And the way Windows Vista’s development went is nothing to be proud of to say the least. It’s a classic case of overpromising and underdelivering.
I still have the PDC 2003 DVDs with all the sessions about the various new technologies and features that would make their way into Windows Vista. It was very exciting to see that, but very little of those features are going to make it into Windows Vista. Microsoft has been either completely removing features out of Windows Vista, even major ones like WinFS, or seriously scaling back other planned features. What remains now of Windows Vista is just a tiny part of what it was really supposed to be. And even then, its release is continiously being delayed. I’ve tried beta versions of Windows Vista, and the quality of the beta releases are less compared to previous betas I’ve been in. When Beta 1 was released it just seemed like they had to release it just so they could keep their promise of releasing it on schedule. There were such obvious bugs in it, I kept wondering how people missed those. The answer, ofcourse, is not that they missed those bugs, they just didn’t have enough time to fix them and have a more quality Beta 1 release. Even the Beta 2 release lacks quality. And just like they released Beta 1 just because they had to keep their promise, they promissed to release Windows Vista by the end of the year for businesses, with the consumer versions being released in January 2007. I don’t know about you, but that seems rather odd to me. If the consumer versions can’t be finished by the end of the year, why can the business versions be ready then? Weren’t all the versions supposed to be released on a single DVD?
It just looks like they’re saying that the business versions of Windows Vista will be ready before the end of 2006 just to lessen the impact of another delay for the short term. . I’ve been saying before that they should have taken the time required to do it right, instead of giving out unrealistic release dates. The whole issue they’re having now is because of their own stupidity.
One of the major screwups that Gates was in charge of is WinFS, which was supposed to make it into Windows Vista. It was so important in fact, that it was called one of the pillars of Windows Vista. First it was taken out of Windows Vista, and it was said that it would be released after Windows Vista was released as an add-on. And now, it’s been announced that WinFS will not be released anymore as a seperate add-on. It’s been broken up, with bits and pieces of it going to SQL Server and ADO.NET. So there will not be a relational filesystem anymore. Take the time to read that blogentry with the announcement, and notice how Microsoft is trying to make it sound like this is a positive thing. You really have to appreciate the attempts at deception there, because they’re quite good. Here they are, essentially announcing “Hey, we’re going to stop working on WinFS, and we’re not going to release it anymore as an add-on for Windows Vista”, and they expect you to fall for the positive spin they put on it, trying to deflect your attention away from the fact that they failed to deliver what they promised. And according to the announcement, we’re supposed to like this because it was done “based on feedback they received.” I wonder who they got that feedback from, since last I checked, everyone was hoping WinFS would be released and bring us a relational filesystem. And we’re talking about what was once considered a pillar of Windows Vista!
Why can’t they just admit they screwed up? Just admit WinFS was too difficult a task for you, and explain why you can’t finish it, instead of trying to fool people. And WinFS was one of the things that Gates stood behind and wanted to get into Vista really badly. Together with the rest of the whole Vista mess, I think this is why Gates has stepped down. His other efforts like the tablet PC and Origami were also not very successful. If these are really the reasons why he’s stepping down, you have to wonder why he doesn’t just come out and admit it. The senior leadership at Microsoft just doesn’t seem to want to admit their failures these days. They don’t seem to want to hold themselves accountable. And if they do, they just “retire,” often with a 1 or 2 year transition period, not actually taking any blame and making their exit seem positive.
And now, the one guy that was setting the example for everyone else at Microsoft has left them. Yeah, I’m talking about Robert Scoble. I don’t think you’ll find anyone who won’t admit that Scoble has a done a lot for Microsoft’s public image, particularly, making the company seem more human. As early as 2003 he put up a list of points on his old weblog, explaining the things companies need to do if they want to put up a company weblog. Those points are exactly the things Microsoft needs to do right now, and I’m surprised they haven’t been paying more (any?) attention to the points Scoble listed there. I’m quite sure Scoble probably told them about those things much earlier and often as well, but it doesn’t seem like people were paying attention. At least, the senior management at Microsoft didn’t even seem to notice. I don’t think Ballmer or Gates even took the time to try and talk Scoble out of leaving Microsoft, which is a clear indication of how much they valued what he was doing for Microsoft, and how much they understand the need for what he was doing at Microsoft.
ta mick
August 31st, 2007 at 11:18 am
losing Win fs with vista was a complete trategy,much of it on the stupidity
of ms.Alot of people were looking forward to it & it was a complete let down.Next on the list is the woefull performance of vista as compared to xp.Why is it so slow, well a lot of it due to source code problems produced
by much more bloat.Bloat was created to give the impression that bigger is better part of that deception has worked but lab tests don’t lie.Having access to the code only makes one think why did it happen.Well vista has been one monumental stuff up in the scheme of things .