Random Vista Discussion Thread

Its cack what more is there to say


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I would expect that to be the case

No

See above

No and No

 

I had it on my home computer for about 6 months but I got really pissed with it and chucked in ubuntu, now I'm on Win7 for all my computers, long live the 7

 

Do you mean that Vista is random, or the discussion is?

 

It should be put on the shelf, right by Windows ME (oh the pain).

 

I run XP at work, Vista on the laptop and 7 on the desktop.

I won't claim to have never had any problems with any of them, but my problems with Vista have all been more as a result of crappy applications than a fault of the OS. My thoughts on Vista and where Microsoft and others dropped the ball could fill a decent sized book, but its not worth delving to deeply as Vista isn't likely to hang around for long now that 7 is here.

 

Not a chance now that 7 is out. They might keep pushing it on the public but they know they haven't a chance with business.

Put off the shelves? It should be put down.


That said, I never had a problem with any versions of vista that I ran except that on my old laptop it ran like a 3 legged dog (but that was only because of the RAM, 1GB). It did everything I wanted without a problem, just slowly.

 

That should have been "on" lol

 

It's hard to know exactly what went wrong with Vista.
I personally don't have a problem with it, other than it seems to try too hard to do things.

It's not as if it's MS's first foray into the OS, and given that they are a survey and feedback giant there is no excuse for misjudging the end user requirements. Maybe they got complacent - who knows.

Sadly, it is most probable that a few of the beta testers and early adopters didn't like it and said so loudly on their blogs and websites. Then the media catch up on it, and before you know it people in the pub are telling people they don't like Vista despite never having used it or knowing the first thing about IT.

Unfortunately that's one of those things about the 'information age'. 15 years ago if you bought a new Dire Straits CD, you either liked it or you didn't. You might tell your friends, you might argue about it. A journalist might give his opinion in a magazine which some people may or may not read.

Nowadays everyone is guffing off on websites, online articles, blogs and forums. So you can do a search for the new Robbie Williams CD and decide if it's rubbish or not without having to actually listen to it, purely based on the opinions of others who may not have listened to it either. Meh.

Next time someone tells you they don't like Vista - ask them why.
You may get a valid and insightful answer, but more likely you'll get something like 'well, it's sh1t, isn't it?'

I would imagine that MS will now pu their might firmly behind 7, and it will be as if Vista never happened.

 

Businesses won't upgrade much of anything. Most will just buy new computers with Windows 7 (or Vista, if their biz apps don't yet support W7) as their old XP and 2000 boxes retire.

 

Nope. Microsoft realizes the negative perception about Vista and is going full-steam-ahead with W7 marketing. Otherwise, they would have called it Vista SP3.

 

Personally currently using Windows XP Professional at work on my main desktop and use Vista Ultimate 32 bit version at home. I think Microsoft would corner the giants likes of HP and Dell and get them to ship PC's with Windows 7.

Am sure we'd all agree to a certain extent that as soon as it reaches the IT dept it would be re-imaged to XP Pro

I am still waiting for a friend that works for Microsoft to get me Windows 7 as I'd like to use this at home.

 

Yeah, to be fair that does sound better than 'sorry, we f***ed up.'

 

Yeah, that would have NEVER happened with XP!