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?
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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. … not a 15 year o
LOL
poor josh.
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Tablet PCS..
mmm can we get rid of this “start tree”
This is a primative and outdated idea “Gates”
Can you believe in 2007 we are even talking about these things,
Just Die MS now, We have had enough GOOOOO away.
PS: Anyone got a JOB in USA for an UI designer and inventor
I will make you heaps for real!
@ Josh
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.
Your analysis is most likely correct. People who actually work for a living realize that large corporations can not suddenly toss out all of their hardware, software, and custom built applications. iWork is no Office and anyone who suggests that it is is either a teenager or detached from reality.
There are no Mac analogs for important vertical business applications (Project Management, Accounting, Estimating, CAD/CAM, not to mention the millions of Apps written in Visual with an access backend) . Apple’s hardware limited OS forces users to use Apple’s limited hardware which doesn’t offer business user much of a choice.
I bring my Dell laptop home when to use when I want to bring my work home with me, otherwise I use one of my Macs for my own enjoyment. Here at MDN, that makes me a “troll”….. The little fanboys here don’t understand business or the software needs of business.
Truth be told, I would say the majority of them are snot nosed little 14 year olds…
Shoeman your a troll Go away with your autocad
and Acounting Virtically
WindowsTroll, Your must be a snotty 40 old,
anyway who cares, so whats your problem?
… you have to use your Dell to do you access db.
LOL
… autocad
and Accounting Vertically..
I say, let it be. What MS is doing is good news for Apple.
Long live Steve Balmer. We welcome the Zune, Vista etc…It just makes Apple look even better.
Is anybody here actually starting to feel sorry for Microsoft?
Me neither.
Is anybody here getting sick of kicking them when they’re down?
Nah, for some reason it just never gets old. F*^k ’em.
Peace.
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@awesome
WindowsTroll, Your must be a snotty 40 old,
anyway who cares, so whats your problem?
… you have to use your Dell to do you access db.
Obviously Mr. Awesome you and the folks here don’t care if they have marketable skills. It’s pretty obvious you never mastered 4th grade English (“your autocad” and “Acounting Virtically”)
But YOU’RE Somebody now. I assume most of the posters here are 8th grade pussies who get the shit kicked out of themselves daily in school. But at MDN, they are “Mac Experts” and “Big Time Investors”….. For the 1st time in their miserable existance, They’re SOMEBODY!!!!
Please continue with you’re humorous tirades. I know it helps you forget that you are the class wimp (I would call you the class geek, but it is obvious by you’re writings that you’re not very intelligent).
Congratulations. For a few hours a day you can transform yourself from the Class Pussy to “Awesome – The iLife Expert”…
It sucks to be you…
Oh and Mr. Awesome…
I do remember the “Stupid kids” when I was in Junior High. Don’t worry, there’s still hope for you. Why not attend Vo-Tech where you can learn to stock grocery store shelves the rest of your life…
Don’t worry, you can still come here to MDN and pretend that you are “Awesome – The Mac Expert”!!!!!!!
dude shoeman for start you seem upset?
whats happened who was mean?
tell me .. let it out.
Do you feel devalued here, you seem OK don’t take it so personally man.
PS: Geeks as class nerds are cool I think.
So ”your point without your attacks ..is PCs have some software and macs don’t and that will take time to change ..”‘
Well we all know this .. .(parallels)..
“Here at MDN, that makes me a “troll”…..”
No, that does not make you a troll.
“The little fanboys here don’t understand business or the software needs of business.”
THAT makes you a troll.
“For the 1st time in their miserable existance, They’re SOMEBODY!!!!”
And you stop by to be King of the Nobodies. The rest of your day must just be outstanding.
What a sad attitude,
Mr Showman, what your problem man.
I don’t care if that was true I come here, when not packing shelfs, What is the shame in that?
Why not debate the subject thane each others character Idont thing that is productive or fun or intelligent.
and gee , your swearing and saying I’m the Dumb one, dude, comon.
@Chrissy Know it all
And you stop by to be King of the Nobodies. The rest of your day must just be outstanding.
No, I stop here because I discovered a website called Mac Daily “News”…… As a relatively new Mac user, I have an interest in what is happening on the platform. Unfortunately, there is little here to do with “News”…. It’s a bunch of fanboy and fangirl posts bashing ANYONE or ANYTHING that isn’t Apple….. This is childish at best or grossly uninformed at worst.
The rest of the day, I have a real career. Those predicting Macs will soon take over the corporate world have little or no idea how business is conducted. Yet with so little knowledge they present themselves as experts.
Hey Chrissy, do you also own 15,000-30,000 shares of AAPL (like everyone else here) that you bought for $13 a share!!!!
Mac Experts and World Class Investors flood MDN.
“I don’t care if that was true I come here, when not packing shelfs, What is the shame in that?
Why not debate the subject thane each others character Idont thing that is productive or fun or intelligent.”
Based on the quote above it is obvious that being a Mac Expert and World Class Investor on MDN requires only about 3rd grade reading and writing skills…
Microsoft does actually have a good operating-system: it’s called Windows 2003 Server (which is the codebase for Vista).
Fortunately (for those interested in the long-term progress of mankind), they don’t market it as a desktop-OS.
But it’s hardware-requirements are much less than those of Vista, and it’s very stable.
The downside is that you need to have server-version of anti-virus software and some other tools.
Of course, one could just as well buy a Mac and stop worrying about all the Windows-BS.
Shoe shoe shoe.
Oh deah, You only need 3rd grade english to invest that is correct, you only need to sign the form to buy shares so as long as you can sign a form.
and if your only new to macs why you say we don’t know them.. I worked for Apple.
Chrissy babe, Chrissy Hey I still love you.
PS: Rainer yes this is true. I agree, don’t tell to many people windows 2003 is stable and fast. What is happening there
>www.iphonewebmail.com
For you “business” people defending msofts monopoly on software….I say this… open excel 2007 and have it multiply 850*77.1. Then come back and give use msofts answer to that equation. QA is not what Msoft is about! Microsoft is about sales volume and monopoly status. They could give a rats ars about your company or your business. I program .Net for a living because the clients I have are all tied in windows….I make a mint on the fact that Msoft software is a pile of crap that doesnt work. They call me back over and over to fix things. Its a good living. I use Apple for my own business and for personal use. nuff said!
MDN is wrong, Mac envy is one of Vista’s problems. If Windows users wanted OS X, they’ll buy the real thing. Windows users want, more than anything, legacy compatibility.
People use Window to NOT be on the bleeding edge. The part of the mac MS should have been trying to emulate wasn’t the graphics flourishes–but the “it just works” part. On Windows, what improvements do I want to XP. Speed, speed, and more speed.
The fact that most users just take whatever OS comes on the hardware is covering up the fact that this is MS’ New Coke (which, to complete the parallel, was trying to win blind taste tests–that is, be more like Pepsi…)
Peoeple, Comon, PLEASE!!!!
we are here for 80 years on Earth comon think about it.
SHOEman fuckOFF human junk!
@Josh
You don’t know the full story. I have a different story. I work for a company and I’m in charge of there software product that compliments another product (I can’t say what it is for contractual reasons). This runs on windows and it reliant on 3rd part drivers for various 3rd party products.
We (our company that is) want to use Vista instead on XP, but we can’t because all the drivers for our 3rd party product don’t install under Vista. The content of the dll doesn’t need to change it’s just the installer just won’t install on Vista.
As Vista is to become standard in Jan 2008 we’re screwed and have to stay with XP.
Now it’s Micro$oft fault for this mess. They need to engineer there new products to support this transition. But they are lazy/ignorant or just don’t give a sh*t. Unlike Apple, MS don’t take ownership of there os. They needed too do that years ago and they failed..
Btw I use Vista on a daily basis and can testify that it’s
1) Ugly.
2) Slow.
3) Claustrophobic.
4) Unstable.
5) Boring.
6) A rip off of Mac Os X.
7) Patronizing.
…..and this is th most important one
8) Unnecessary. – It achieves nothing and it’s existence is pointless for the average user.
Peace.
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“No. No. And No.”
Hehehehahahayukyuk.
@Awesome
I worked for Apple.
LOL!!! Sure ya did kid. I’m sure Steve really likes morons like you who can’t even read and write….
I’m sure you work though. Can I have some fries with that???? LOL!!!!!
Awesome – You are the man. 3rd Grade Dropout who flips burgers at McDonald’s during the day, and Internet Big Wig and Multimillion dollar investor on Steve Jack’s MDN during the night! LOL
Big Time!
LOL!
All this silliness and angst brought in by this oaf called Shoeman and we overlooked the fact that sputnik is back!
Bring back some sputnik style to the opposing arguments and let’s consign the latest examples llike Shoeman Ballmer and ZT to the trash…
Oh Shoe
Do you live in one? LOL …….Why not come over and cook us some burgers. Mc donald sounds nice,
Well I dont spell correct here you are right,
You know I take it as a compliment when people say I didn’t work for them, its just a company.
but the point was that you don’t know macs and disputed our knowledge and may of us including myself have years of experience with them.
Lets just be friends Huh
So what do you do for a job?
So what do you do for a job?
As I mentioned MANY times, I am an engineering Planner/Scheduler and am tied to Primavera software – both version 3.1 for Windows and Enterprise e/c 5.0.
There are NO analogs to it in the Mac world. I make quite a good living at it which is why I laugh when i read the Macheads here post their nonsense “Who wants crappy Windows on a Mac”… “Who would use a junky Dell”…..
Statements like those above (which are posted daily here at MDN) are either childish or ignorant. Most of the engineering (and industrial construction) world operates on vertical software solutions which (again I mention) there are no analogs to in the Mac World. Yet for whatever reason, the morons here simply can’t understand that. I should throw my 100K+ a year job away and do something else where I can use a Mac (and wait for the world to catch up I suppose).. Sorry, I am 50 years old, have 2 kids in College and not ready to give up my living just so I can be a “cool” Mac Guy…
Windows is a necessary evil, at least in my world. It is required. And although you can’t see it, it is that way in most of the world.
“Who wants crappy Windows” is a statement by very uninformed or ignorant people.