One year ago today, Microsoft released Windows Vista to manufacturing. In the obligatory anniversary post we ask: Was it ready? Will it ever be ready? The answer to the first question is an emphatic "no." Vista wasn't ready. Hardware manufacturers and software developers weren't ready for it. The channel and enterprises weren't ready, and consumers couldn't get it because Vista missed holiday 2006.
Microsoft promised WOW, but the reaction was, "What?" What is different from Windows XP? What is wrong with the hardware requirements? What is the difference between "Capable" and "Ready?" What is this Software Assurance requirement for Vista Enterprise? What happened to the familiarity of Windows XP? What is wrong with my Vista applications and hardware? More recently the "W" question is "When?"--as in when will Microsoft release Vista Service Pack 1?
View: The full story @ MS-Watch
Microsoft promised WOW, but the reaction was, "What?" What is different from Windows XP? What is wrong with the hardware requirements? What is the difference between "Capable" and "Ready?" What is this Software Assurance requirement for Vista Enterprise? What happened to the familiarity of Windows XP? What is wrong with my Vista applications and hardware? More recently the "W" question is "When?"--as in when will Microsoft release Vista Service Pack 1?
View: The full story @ MS-Watch
Unless they screw that up as well
erm most likely the things that are already mentioned in the article above, have a read.
I was well and truly baited.
<3 Vista.
XP was poorly received, overall, and thought of as a stable but bloated system. It took a long time to adopt, had a stupid colorful interface, and added features all around that nobody uses. Users were annoyed because their computers weren't powerful enough, at the time, to run XP. But when they later upgraded everything worked well.
Vista has been poorly received, overall, and thought of a stable but bloated system. It's been adopted faster than XP. It has a better looking, less stupid colorful interface, that is highly demanding of weaker systems, and adds feathers that nobody will ever use. Users are annoyed because, like when the upgraded to XP, their computers aren't powerful enough to run Vista (but they forgot that part about XP because it was so long ago and they've already upgraded a few times since then).
The general reaction to Vista has been almost the same the reaction XP when it was released. However, nobody acknowledges the similarities. They all go on bashing Vista with the same arguments they had against XP 6 years ago.
You know what? In 2 years these same people will be talking about Vista as if there was nothing else, and when Windows 7 releases they will again start their irritating, hypocritical, trade against it.
MS is making core changes to the OS which are for the better, you just have to give this process time. And it will break older things, but that is a must if you want it to be more stable and more secure.
It's just what you said.. It seems most people forgot how XP migration was..
It wasn't?? Sorry but it was..
Remember XP came out in 2001 ( it's more than 6 years old ), and i remember seeing the same story's, over and over again...
Why wouldn't the chipset play a significant factor? The Southbridge handles all your IO, and the northbridge (for intel chipsets) does all the memory work. The chipset is a KEY PART of performence. Bad motherboard drivers would make your stuff run slow or unstable even if it's newer and expensive.
so 6+ years and all they could come up with is what you see in Vista.. what a shame.. and they still could not add the stuff that they wanted to add. that even more of a shame.. what was Microsoft doing for 6 years+ years??
It looks back historically at Vista and will (later today) have another part to it added on how the outlook for SP1 could be more positive.
I think it's a pretty fair article. Vista hardware support in the start was junk, compatibility was junk, and people didn't understand what was so good about it because MS hadn't communicated that well enough. And no, XP wasn't quite as bad, but that has to do with it not being an as major update to 2000.
On top of it, creating themes for Metacity is pretty easy when you get it. PNGs are so much easier to work with than editing Microsoft prioprietary themes.
but still, i expect more since it has been 6 years already...
It's NOT about the processor anymore, IT'S THE MEMORY. Vista is a memory whore and that's how I like it.
I've not upgraded to a Quad Core system 2Gb RAM. Vista still thrashing away but now I can ignore it. I'm actually happy with it. I will be glad though to see SP1, hopefully this will get the ball rolling and tempt me into recommending Vista systems to my customers.
"Wow" when will we see the 'Wow" in Vista???
But things have changed in the last few months. New drivers are out, software's been updated, and Microsoft has released 5 "fix packs" to fix most of the problems with Vista itself. In fact, things are running smoothly enough that back in August I went ahead and wiped XP off my main machine and switched to Vista x64 and never looked back.
I'm pretty happy with Vista right now, and I'm looking forward to SP1 to make it the OS it should have been in the first place...
Vista Launched to the Officiel Retail market on Monday, January 29, 2007 so Tuesday January 29, 2008 will be the Officiel 1 year mark.
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