A Gloomy Vista for Microsoft

I have considerable contempt for Microsoft products. VISTA wouldn't recognize my CD drives. I switched to XP. I have had several years of bliss. I suggest Microsoft be honest enough in their advertisement to show VISTA on the subject's own computer. Let's see how pleased the test subjects are when their software won't respond and the hardware is unrecognized.

Shitsa still sucks. I own a computer company in San Diego and I can't give it away. The reason we all know on the big numbers of Shitsa sold is Office Depot and Staples notebooks and cheap cheap computers with Shitsa on it collecting dust. Give me a break $icrosoft.....your Shitsa OS is the worst since DOS 6.0....XP is stable, fast and very very reliable in all aspects of the PC world.

Shitsa still sucks. I own a computer company in San Diego and I can't give it away. The reason we all know on the big numbers of Shitsa sold is Office Depot and Staples notebooks and cheap cheap computers with Shitsa on it collecting dust. Give me a break $icrosoft.....your Shitsa OS is the worst since DOS 6.0....XP is stable, fast and very very reliable in all aspects of the PC world.

I am so glad that the bar has been set as "I have ran it without problems." Thank goodness. An operating system came out that "ran without problems." Is this really the best we can hope for. I read the comments below and I am waiting for the innovative and wonderful features that make my computer experience better. Who has some?

"Vista's slow, it's fat, my software doesn't work, I can't get drivers, the User Access Control's a pain in the ass and my network grinds to a crawl when I play an mp3! What do you call that????

"??? The Aristocrats!" http://tinyurl.com/4tqe9v

Vista's problem can be summed up quite simply: Vista does nothing better, faster or more reliably, running on the same hardware, than the operating system it was supposed to replace. After 25 years of working with Microsoft operating systems, I can pretty much say that it is the worst release the company has ever made - and my clients, who are overwhelmingly staying with XP, agree. The problem for Microsoft is to make sure that they don't make it "two in a row" with Vista's soon-to-appear successor.

I have been a computer user when dos started and up till now I have used every microsoft operting system they have come out with to me xp has been the best to use. My problem with microsoft is their systems are not safe they should pay more attention to safety than all the fancy operting systems, that's why I use mozilla firefox when I use microsoft msn through verizon.( Microsoft step up to the plate and think safety first ).

Why do they make money on the Vista? Because they got computer makers to only sell their new computers with Vista in them. Giving the monopoly the Gates has created, they had little chance of fighting it.. Thus it's not the Vista that is so much in demand, it's the fact that it is now very difficult for the average, uninformed buy to get a better system and one that isn't a gigabyte hog as everything MS designs with the thirst for mb's.

I first started on a computer with dos and have used every operation system that microsoft has invented and to me xp was the best so far, my problem is I'm tired of all the updates I wish they would pay more attention to making their software safer, I'm at the point now I use mozilla firefox. What microsoft needs to do is pay more attention to security of their software and less about all the fancy operating systems.

Why do they make money on the Vista? Because they got computer makers to only sell their new computers with Vista in them. Giving the monopoly the Gates has created, they had little chance of fighting it.. Thus it's not the Vista that is so much in demand, it's the fact that it is now very difficult for the average, uninformed buy to get a better system and one that isn't a gigabyte hog as everything MS designs with the appitite for mb's.

If Microsoft has sold 180 million Vista, you can rest assured that there are at least 175 million unhappy customers. I bought a new gateway computer with Vista because I had always found Microsoft programs to be top line. I love XP. I would give anything to have my old HP with XP back. The only thing this new computer is good for is to read my E-mail and half the time that does not work. Microsoft has even tried to update my program on line and cannot do that because Vista does not work. Plus I noticed while they were trying to update my system, three different times my virus control stopped three different virious.

MicroSoft vs Apple is about Old vs Young, it is a generational thing, period. MACs are pretty on the outside and the user interface is equally pretty. They appeal to the "whatever" generation that is anything but technical and thinks that a "driver" is the person behind the wheel of a car. MicroSoft has 90% of the market because they had a head start in the business world which at the time did not trust Apple to handle business applications and rightly so, at the time it couldn't nor was Apple particularly interested in that market. If MicroSoft really wanted to make Windows as sexy as MAC it could, but why should it? If you have 90% of the market who cares why waste the cash trying to outdo a company that is a fraction of the size with a miniscule part of the market? MicroSoft is not trying to appeal to the kids. It is trying to appeal to the boomers that STILL drive the market. The stradegy is not bad, being a part of the boomer generation, I naturally find Apple's commercials obnoxious, arrogant and full of themselves, big suprise there. What I am waiting to see is if MicroSoft indeed has something to show me in Vista that would make me want it. Show me something as sexy as MAC but also appeals to the "techie" in me. Show me something that does what MAC does at half the cost, something that can run on an older system and still run rings around Apple. Come on MicroSoft, with 90% of the market share and the money you have in your pocket? If you can't do that, don't let the screen door hit you on the way out the door...

"pressed the power button, and ??? nothing"

"Finally he removed the battery and snapped it back into place. The machine started up???slowly".

Good one.

Could it have been the fault with the "gorgeous new top-of- the-line notebook " issue which the clever CEO conveniently turned into a Vista issue?

Vista had a lot of issues with 3rd party drivers but I have never heard of computer not booting up because of Vista.

"Many consumers like me, who'd bought new PCs loaded with Vista, reloaded them with XP."

"Yet the fact that Microsoft has to run ads like that speaks to the kind of perception problems Vista has had"

Mojave experiment is for people like you - You talk of technology day in and day out but still believe CEOs who say that a hardware issue is related to the OS.

-Manas

Local car dealership commercials star the owners and the owners wife and kids, Microsoft's campaign starring Bill Gates is exactly the same minus the shouting and balloons. He's ruining his company's reputation through bad marketing advice. He looks kinda shrew-like anyway and should remain behind the camera.
-MyMacRocks08

Placing the owner of a company is a sign of failure or cheapness like a local car dealership.