Don Reisinger blogs for CNET, “While Vista was originally touted by Microsoft as the operating system savior we’ve all been waiting for…”
MacDailyNews Take: We and about 25 million other Mac users certainly weren’t waiting for it – except perhaps for a few laughs; we’ve had the world’s most advanced operating system for many years now.
Resinger continues, “…it has turned out to be one of the biggest blunders in technology. With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want.”
MacDailyNews Take: What you really want is a Mac, even if you don’t know it, yet.
Resinger continues, “The first indication that Microsoft should abandon Vista is its poor sales figures. According to a recent report titled “Windows Vista Still Underperforming in U.S. Retail” from NPD, Vista sales are significantly behind XP sales during its early days. Even worse for Redmond, some are reverting to XP, citing issues with compatibility and overall design. And if that wasn’t enough, Macs continue to surge and with the impending release of Leopard, Microsoft may be in for a rough holiday season.”
Resinger writes, “With each passing day, it’s becoming blatantly clear that Microsoft released Vista too early…”
MacDailyNews Take: Too early?! Years of delays and you waited for what? A chrome-plated turd.
Resinger continues, “…and the company’s continual mistakes and promises that can’t be kept are further annoying the Windows faithful.”
MacDailyNews Take: The only “Windows faithful” are those that haven’t used a Mac.
Resinger continues, “Much talk has been given to Service Pack 1 and how this update should address many of the issues users have with Vista, but I simply don’t agree. Will SP1 eliminate the ridiculous Microsoft licensing schemes? Will SP1 drop the price on the higher-end versions? Will SP1 eliminate the need for users to buy a new computer just to use the faulty OS?”
MacDailyNews Take: No. No. And no.
Resinger continues, “SP1 will do nothing but fix the holes and issues we currently know about and create even more. As we all know from the days of Windows ME and even XP, Microsoft is not the best company at finding and addressing security issues, and chances are, Vista will be no different.”
Resinger writes, “One significant problem that I have with Vista is its inclusion of new DRM… we’re not even allowed to backup our favorite movies? Come on.”
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, come on. Take the red pill, awaken, and Get a Mac.
Resinger continues, “I also find it interesting that Microsoft decided to take the user access control concept from Mac OS X and make it much worse… Never before have I seen such an abysmal start to an operating system release… The road ahead looks dangerous for Vista and Microsoft must realize that. With Mac OS X hot on its tail, Vista is simply not capable of competing at an OS level with some of the best software around. If Microsoft continues down this path, it will be Vista that will bring the software giant to its knees–not Bill Gates’ departure.”
“As a daily user of Mac OS X, Ubuntu and Vista, I’m keenly aware of what works and what doesn’t. Mac and Linux work,” Resinger writes. “The time is up. Microsoft must abandon Vista and move on.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: There’s yet another nice Vista review. Window-only sufferers who’ve arrived here looking for Vista news: The news is grim. When you finally tire of trying to make your upside-down and backwards fake Macs work, Apple is waiting for you with the real thing. Yes, we’re biased. And we’re also right. We’ve used both Macs and Windows PCs quite recently, have you?
MDN, that was some great stuff, the old stuff!
Microsoft can’t dump Vista – there’s nothing to fall back on.
XP. MS needs to announce (and admit) that Vista is a failure, kill it, and go straight back to XP.
MS also needs to look at New Coke for the standard on how to handle a high-profile bomb. Of course admitting failure embarrassed and hurt Coke. But it hurt a lot less than hanging onto a debacle.
Unless Microsoft has been developing the Vista successor alongside of Vista and no one leaked the info, there’s no hope.
MS can’t do anything in secret. The moment someone starts whiteboarding the next Windows (if there ever is one), the industry will know.
One good think about not working in support any more: I no longer have to use Vista.
New Vista Version Coming!
I told the marketing folk long ago that Vista needed to have five versions not four! But, being the easy-going, no-waves guy I am I let it slide, I let the “experts” have their way.
RESULTS:
Anemic, sluggish, weak, poohpooh sales!
I will no longer sit by and let this continue! Per my executive order 31148V.101 we will add to the Vista line-up – “Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate”. SUTU (as I call it) will include 33% of all of the modern architecture features that we originally promised for Longhorn 3 years ago but dropped from the final version.
“Vista 2X Super Ultra Turbo-Ultimate” SUTU includes:
Dynamic Core Desktop Acceleration – DCDA
LiveTime Animotron Technology – LtAM
Windows Interscope Code Manager – WICM
The zLife Suite of applications:
StudioBand – Record up to 4 tracks of music.
zPicture – Your JPG photo manager
zWeb – Create Beautiful text webpages
zMelodies – A new skin for Mediaplayer making it a zApp
zFilm – Video editing for any WMV file
All of this Tech-goodness for just $699!
….. and it comes in a RED box.
I have to second MacMania’s opinion. MDN, you are in fine form today. It is a form of restoration and stress relief for me to read such articulate, informed and acid-tongued analyses of the integrity-barren logical diarrhoea that is much of mainstream media these days. Keep ’em coming!
There’s always Windows 7 (Vienna) several years from now.
“Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested that the next version of Windows would ‘be more user-centric.'”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
Ahhh, user-centric. The user. Interesting.
Anyone else disgusted by MDN advertising for Microsoft? Get those banners out of here. Ugh.
> Years of delays and you waited for what? A chrome-plated turd.
Actually, Vista was cobble together in about 18 months. The rest of the time was spent on “Longhorn” which was essentially cancelled. Vista is Windows XP with a superficial makeover. And it was rushed to market because another delay would have been unthinkable. Ironically, Vista’s deficiencies are what allowed Apple the latitude to delay Leopard to October.
News Flash:
MS in the wake of VIsta is taking advantage of it’s licensing agreement with Novell. The next version of Windows will be based on Open Source SuSE Linux with the old 32-Bit API’s included (ala Wine).
The new Windows version will be… Windux
The new catch phrase/slogan for the marketing campaign:
Windux: We’ll wipe your hard drive clean!
Ugh, Ballmer, stop trying so hard. Maybe Vista can also carbon date your sense of humor.
It is all part of the plan, relax. by releasing the Vista system to the public as unknowing beta testers, this gave Microsoft an excellent opportunity to evaluate it in real IT world. It is only a matter of time.
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Everything has it’s own place in the IT world. Corporate won’t touch OS X because they can’t run on Cicso or M$ networks. I use Windows at work and OS X at home. Been a Mac boy since System 6.07 (remember that one people?!?) And we need UNIX, Linux and even RedHat to keep choice. People power will decided the winner, and so far I have kept my promise to Steve, I switched 4 window users to the mac now. How many have you switched, huh?
Thats where the war will be won!
Vista Melisata
Here is a storie for you people,
Another example of MS and they way they do business, and save money.
In NZ we have a great city with many large corporate buildings.
One building at bottom of town, is an old building which use to belong to a radio broadcasting company, is is not very nice it is very square and boring and is also very dark.
No modern self respecting business would want to make this there Head quarters f and advertise that fact,.
Well a few years ago there where changes made to it, Windows where changed to bigger mirror glass and the outside painted a light color, pink type colour.
and then when it was nearly finished, a Big sign was placed
“MS corportation”
I though it was sad that they could not get a nice building and cleaned up this old one, being such a big company.
It looked on the surface somewhat respectable but was a bit boring, unlike the IBM, Novell, and others on simons Street.
sad huh,
Also for the mac people: The old saying for anyone making a house ‘ There is a saying. “measure twice cut once”.
I am sure we can see this analogy, for MS.
A@iphonewebmail.com
Nothing is more pathetic than the “Vista is too early” wail. Would Microsoft have backed on the horrific interface changes? Would they have forced 64 bit compatibility to move PC manufacturers into the 2000s? Would they have completely re-written the dog shit slow video system that requires hundreds of megs of RAM to decently run? Would they have sandboxed users and fixed the Registry?
We know what the answers to those questions are. Why don’t the tech pundits?
How many years of delays and cost overruns did it take to get some paint and a new sign on that obsolete old building?
I suppose there were some provisions for a coal boiler and direct-current lighting that had to be kept, just in case…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7
Did anybody read that??
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. MS has completely lost ALL sense of reality.
Heh we gotta love MS’s Ben Fathi’s own description of Windows 7: “I don’t know what it is”
Priceless is Gate’s vision of people being able to access their favorites and fonts from a public kiosk (crickets chirping…). Why is that a killer app, and why would it take another death-marched OS to implement it?
Also, “We’ll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system.” Mr. Gates, how does that differ from what Apple had in the 1980’s?
Seriously, everyone at MS should retire, and enjoy a nice Office-funded pension.
the only and ONLY thing i like about microsoft…
is halo!
“Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested that the next version of Windows would ‘be more user-centric.'”
umm, hasn’t he said that about EVERY version of windows?
and how is that working out BTW?
….. and it comes in a RED box….
with a WHITE CROSS in the middle.
SYMBOLIZING – help.
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I read it.
“We’ll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system.”
OOOOh – lets copy Apples CORE GRAPHICS.
REDMOND continues to INNOVATE.
Does Vista use that gawd awful stupid registry like XP, ME, etc. has? Every time I run a reg cleanup program I’m amazed at the crap that is found. I only use XP cause I have to at work. Thought about putting XP on my Mac but I’m afraid – very very afraid.
You bet yer sweet ass it is.
Congratulations _!_?_…good job
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I don’t get it! I have a Mac, but I also have a Windows computer to use with certain software that only runs under Windows. I have NO problems with Vista. All my old equipment works fine on it. Never had a problem with a virus using XP or Vista. Never had malware take over my computer with any edition of Windows. My Windows machines are reliable and “they just work”.
Mac Daily New is losing its credibility with its constant harping about Windows. Like a 14 year old Jr. High kid who has to try and be a big man by putting down others. It’s time to grow up.
“Microsoft must abandon the Windows Vista albatross”
How about saying this:
“Microsoft must abandon Windows”
That would work just as well.
Big feature in Windows 7? — Better support for tablets!
You go Billy Boy — keep pushing those tablet PCs at us!
“Students won’t need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices.”
Of course, by 2010 and Windows 7, iPhone will be on version 6. No need for tablet PCs. But good luck with that guys.