A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft

I use Vista, XP Pro, and XP on my computers. Initially when Vista came out I had a couple problems, but long since no other problems. It is much faster and better than my XP systems. There is no longer a basis for complaining about Vista. It is much better than XP, and those who are still complaining simply are off base.

It's about time people noticed Microsoft's forced obsolescence pattern and started looking at alternatives. It took forever but even your average Joe sixpack is now getting the message. Who would actually pay money for Vista?

It is time for Microsoft to go down into the tomb of all regimes that sacrificed usability and value only for enhanced ways of fattening their own wallets at the expense of all. And for a while there, they were talking about billing you at constant intervals so you can continue using your own computer!

I say that they should continue wasting money on advertising that won't work and finally cease to exist. It's about time.

It's about time people noticed Microsoft's forced obsolescence pattern and started looking at alternatives. It took forever but even your average Joe sixpack is now getting the message. Who would actually pay money for Vista?

It is time for Microsoft to go down into the tomb of all regimes that sacrificed usability and value only for enhanced ways of fattening their own wallets at the expense of all. And for a while there, they were talking about billing you at constant intervals so you can continue using your own computer!

I say that they should continue wasting money on advertising that won't work and finally cease to exist. It's about time.

I used a PC since 1983 also. Still I'm a PC

I'm a PC!

$17 billion for software? It boggles the mind. It's like selling addition or subtraction, and calling it "innovation." No surprise that selling mortgages bundled as securities, gambling casinos, and suburban (that is, automobile dependent) development are also viewed as viable economic activities. Nearly every "thing" that Microsoft sells is available for free, as in price, and for free, as in freedom, i.e., unencumbered by DRM, ridiculous copyrights, and deliberate crippling of interoperability for purposes of market control. Such software alternatives tend to be far superior in design, more secure, easier to fix, and therefore cheaper to use.

The recent Microsoft two page, full-spread ad entitled "Windows vs Walls" that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle states that Microsoft is "dedicated to engineering the absence of anything that might stand in the way of life." So is Microsoft trying to targeting Vista to the right-to-life anti-choice evangelicals in the liberal Bay Area? Everyone I know running Windows has converted back to XP. Get a new ad agency, Microsoft!

The problem you describe, pressing the power button and nothing happening, has nothing to do with the operating system and everything to do with the laptop's hardware a ROM BIOS. In the future, please try to have at least a clue about what you are writing about.

Some legacy programs, that work perfectly under WinXP, do not work at all under Vista. That's why I pulled Vista from a new quad-core, and replaced it with XP.

Some legacy programs, that work perfectly under WinXP, will not work under Vista. That's why I pulled it off a a new machine.

What isn't mentioned about the Mojave experiment was that the subjects were shown a video about the "new" operating system. They weren't allowed to actually play with it and test it out.

Anything can be made to look good on film......

I wonder how many of those 180 million Vista licenses sold were Vista Business and of those, how many were rolled back to XP using the downgrade license included in the Vista Business license agreement. And of those 180 million Vista licenses sold how many went to bulk OEM builders (who buy 1000's at a time) and how many computers they have actually used them on. That would tell a lot more about Vista's "popularity".

I wonder how many of those 180 million Vista licenses sold were Vista Business and of those, how many were rolled back to XP using the downgrade license included in the Vista Business license agreement. And of those 180 million Vista licenses sold how many went to bulk OEM builders (who buy 1000's at a time) and how many computers they have actually used them on. That would tell a lot more about Vista's "popularity".

This article is pure BS. I have owned Vista for over a year and never had any problems. I am sure this story of the CEO is either fabricated or the CEO is an idiot.

To hornsey, you most likely don't do much on your PC, so with your limited resources needed, not much prob there. You're also one of the lucky few, relatively speaking, and so consider yourself lucky!

Vista is great. many of the detractors, as shown in the Mojave experiment had trouble distinguishing perception, based on others views alone, from the reality.

I find Vista fast, stable and free of glitches and with less malware installing. Burn XP burn! No - I have nothing to do with Microsoft.

I am now on Ubuntu, Vista is horrible. Slow and bloted. Geez guys and gals.

I went from Vista to Ubuntu. I cannot go back. I have to say that the time has come!!!

Same old, same old.