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?
Peace Shoe
Peace shoe, We cool, don’t want to abuse each other all day huh?
I did use to flip burgers your right, and only worked in the Technical Support, cue for them.
Tell us for reall what u do for a job?
“MacDailyNews Take: Too early?! Years of delays and you waited for what? A chrome-plated turd.”
Yet more copies of Vista are already in use than there are users of all versions of Mac OS X ever sold.
If Vista is a commercial failure based on surpassing the Mac with less than 1 year of sales, Mac OS X must be a colossal commercial failure based on decades of trying and failing.
Please stop referring to it as Vista. That’s not its name.
We must call things by their real names.
LONGHORN.
Things that Leopards eat.
“If Vista is a commercial failure based on surpassing the Mac with less than 1 year of sales, Mac OS X must be a colossal commercial failure based on decades of trying and failing.”
Remember what you typed, when you buy and love your Macintosh in the not too distant future.
Even if you work for Microsoft you will buy a Macintosh sooner or later (because you will be out of a job when they start downsizing).
Cool Shoeman, It sounds like a great job,
thanks for replying.
Yes many vertical market software is not on macs.
Windows will not go away for a long time; I think the reason is that heaps of these third party programs run on Windows. Actually the business of HP, IBM and Windows Prop-apps is fine and they they will not disappear nor should they.
Its the same with electronic testing I use to program radio with pcs and all early software was dos. Only as Windows licensed the system to many companies.
Apple are a home use machine; Apple will need to licence there OS for self sustained growth.
Many people see MS tactics as the worst part, it seems to limit choice. I just want people to make informed decisions based on what they think and need and not pushed into something.
It is not a simple task to move into business for Apple, I know this is a hard road. I have never forgiven MS for the theft of apple systems.
“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.”
Nobody said you have to use it beyond whatever niche software you are using. Parallels runs FINE on OS X.
So, the best solution is to get a Mac, run OS X, and then install Windows ME or whatever (just do not buy or support Vista) and QUARANTINE your legacy software and legacy OS inside Parallels (or Fusion).
That is the best solution. It is like running those 8-bit home computer emulators inside a box, or running Java on any platform. It works.
Then you can use OS X for everything else.
Using Windows as the main OS is *really* the way of the ignorant or misinformed.
“iWork is no Office and anyone who suggests that it is is either a teenager or detached from reality.”
Fine. Use NeoOffice. Easy. Free. Powerful.
MS Office? Headache. Pricey. Pointless.
thepumpboy
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.
OSX can’t run on Cisco or MS networks? Since when? OSX has ISO standard TCP/IP v4 and v6 stacks for its default networking. What else is needed to run on a typical Cisco network exactly? A VPN client? Check. A built in SSH client (which Windows doesn’t have)? Check. It also snaps into Active Directory, includes Kerberos authentication and uses SAMBA for file and printer sharing. I’ve used it myself hundreds of times in Windows environments and had no issues whatsoever. So what exactly are you describing when you say it doesn’t work?
…..but what would I know eh? Not like I’m a network guy with well over a decade’s experience or anything….
..Oh yeah, ACTUALLY I AM!!!!
@Dave H: *ahem* I believe the proper response at this point is “Boo-ya!”
@Shoedouche: And honestly, Shoe, if we accept your premise that most of the users here are snot-nosed 14-year-olds, then can we infer based on your behavior thus far that you frequently argue with said 14-year-olds? What I’m asking is, do you also spend your weekends hanging out at the local mall’s food court getting into the verbal fisticuffs with those dang skate punks, what with their “Hot Topic” and “the video games”?
Just curious.
So, the best solution is to get a Mac, run OS X, and then install Windows ME or whatever (just do not buy or support Vista) and QUARANTINE your legacy software and legacy OS inside Parallels (or Fusion).
Not for me… I have a company issued Dell Laptop, and I have an old beat up homebuilt 1.2 Gig Pentium III. I use those 2 for my “work” related things. I want my Macs Pure….
The reason I switched in the 1st place was to get away from spyware…
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.
I wondered if I had read this right! Who is behind who’s tail? as far as I can tell, Tiger is so far ahead of Vista that all that Vista users can see is the tip of the Tigers tail! When Leopard turns up, M$ & Vista will be quakeing in their boots because Leopards by nature will occassionally ambush their prey from the top of a tree branch and then hoist their catch up the tree so that opportunistic scavengers cannot steal a single morsel of it.
The scavenger that is M$ will not find a morsel to copy & in fact will have to watch out they don’t end up a tree as the Leopards dinner!!!
This is one occassion that I have to admit that the Leopard will not need to Drink Camel’s Milk
Apple sholud release a second version of ipod hi-fi but with new docks for the new ipods…GET IT APPLE!!!!
“My Windows machines are reliable and “they just work”.”
Speak for yourself.
A few months ago I had to reinstall Windows. Last week I tried to install Cakewalk. Midway it stopped – blue screen of death and rebooted. I can’t remove the partial installation. I can’t overwrite it. My only option is to reinstall Windows and all my apps. I have done this so many times and enough is enough. I am getting a MAC. Had a look at the GarageBand demo and couldn’t believe how easy it is. Can’t wait.
I do have a complaint for MDN. Site loads slowly – suggest you load contents first before adverts.
re: the only and ONLY thing i like about microsoft…
is halo!
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And even that they didnt develop themselves!
Its was developed by Bungie, who were one of the best games developers for the mac platform until Redmond threw them a large check for the company.
LOL – without Bungie Halo would never have been developed.
Ironic isnt it that all of M$ ‘innovations’ are from companies that they have bought and not developed inhouse.
Just goes to show that if you have a big enough chequebook you too can say you have ‘innovated’.
MDN must abandon the Kool Aid albatross.
Just my $0.02
@Office apps:
Use NeoOffice. Easy. Free. Powerful.
And rubbish. Surely you’re not serious? There are some areas in which open source software can’t compete (yet).
I didn’t know the Pope was so into computers.
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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
Dear Shoeman, i would rather hang out with a burger flipper then your tightwad ass any day.
And, most of the world uses LINUX. BTW..
@Josh:
You must be a very lucky man having no problems whatsoever with Vista. As an IT-student, I had to buy a new laptop and try finding one without Vista. After three weeks, the BSOD-count is already at five, simply because I followed one of the options Vista had proposed after not finding any wireless networks. And considering the cost of losing my waranty, I cannot dump Vista for XP as I should or Linux as I’d love to.
Also, networking really sucks on Vista. It took me about an hour to set up a simple LAN with an XP laptop.
But at the end of the day, at least I’ve got a Mac at home, so at least I can get some schoolwork done
MW: probably as in “Vista is probably as bad as it can get”
The shareholders are awakening to Ballmer…his days are numbered…just watch and see.
Somebody is gonna get punted for this stagnant 6 year endeavor…and who is directly
first in line?…old monkey baldy, that’s who. Gates was smart to slide out nice and slowly. Ballmer is going to take the hit…the shareholders aren’t going to just sit there.
“The shareholders are awakening to Ballmer . . .”
Imagine rolling over to that face in the morning.
Applause, applause on the MDN comments, esp. the very last one.
“Vista is not designed for users. It is designed for Corporate IT departments…”
Except that it’s giving even corporate IT departments, such as the one I work for, the heebie-jeebies. We will have to set up and maintain a volume license key server. The basic admin tools, like Active Directory or Group Policy, aren’t ready for Vista and don’t seem to work quite right (and apparently won’t be until Windows Server 2008 comes out – thanks, Microsoft!)
Microsoft really blew this release. They managed to make both of their major target markets unhappy. The corporate folks are irritated at the increased hardware and licensing requirements and the half-baked tool support, and the home users are mad that their printer drivers don’t work and their Hi-Def media is all DRMed up.
@ChrissyOne
Working in Windows support was what drove me to the Mac in 1998. Been walking on sunshine ever since.
@Shoeman
Who said “I assume most of the posters here are 8th grade pussies who get the shit kicked out of themselves daily in school.”
Nice try at labeling all of us, but many of us started on DOS crap in the 1980’s and are “Fanboys or girls” for Apple because unlike PC users, we learn from negative feedback that causes pain. And we don’t GO there again. We switch to a good experience.
Even rats in a Skinner Box have their behavior shaped by getting rewarded by a pleasant experience, and seek avoidance for a negative experience. (See I remembered my Psychology course from College in the late ’70’s.) So does that mean PC users are dumber than rats? You decide.
Don’t assume we’re all kids in high school “bagging groceries.” Some of us are also in your age bracket and hold IT jobs at prominent businesses. And we like ripping on Microsoft, the target is just too damn fun and easy to hit, and M$ deserves it for it releasing endless crap.
This is our “home.” If you don’t like the fanboy attitude here there are plenty of other websites out there. Find one.