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?
@Shoeman
I’m a 44 yr old father of 3. Windows user at work, Mac user by choice at home. College educated too. I flipped burgers once though, it’s honorable work. Dug ditches for a while too. Now I work for the IRS. I have a black belt in Karate too. Cuz I hate bullies.
mdn word: late. As in “better than never”
Yep not even zune tang can make a god joke out of a bad one it seems.
yeah MSFT has to re-write everything for multi-thread anyway, i think Leopard is built for it. Soon everything will be quad core, then 8, and eight is likely enough for a while. Apple 8, MSFT 0.
polish a turd, its still a turd.
I use Vista, XP, OS-X and Linux all on different computers. While I do agree that OS-X is currently the only “ready for prime-time” OS out there, I think people are just jumping on the “Hate MS” bandwagon.
I have been using Vista successfully on one of my desktops now for a while, and I haven’t had nearly as many problems as I had with Windows XP. People LOVE to hate Microsoft, and while I generally try to use my linux-box or my Macbook for most things, Vista is not nearly as bad as everyone says it is.
@ Ken
Vista gave me an error message that said, among other things, that I should make sure the computer was on!
Did you screen print that and post it on Flickr? I want to fave it!!
Sorry Shoeman.
Guess again. We’re not all kids here, many of us are middle aged IT’s who’ve been both routes and began on crappy DOS and have seen it all. We’re not kids in high school. So dream on.
We’ve chose our loyalties out of REASON, having lived through this computer revolution. So suck it up Shoeman. We’re proMac with valid, sensible reasons based on experience and logic.
Microsoft has nothing to fall back on?
Well, they could make more Halo 3 for all I care. Give up the OS business and do something you are good at – making a game machine and creating softwares for them.
Do not disillusion yourself with being good at making OS that works. Your first one you bought from someone and named it MS-DOS. Then you practically stole the Mac OS of long ago and created Windows out of it. See, you’ve got nothing original up your sleeve so beat it!
Some people can’t tell the difference between an Albatross and a Goose That Lays Golden Eggs.
apple wont be anything compared to microsoft in the software market as long as they restrict their software for use with only their hardware.
should they decide to release osx for the general pc-market it would probably also not be competative because it’s not yet “advaced” enough to compete with windows.
in this scenario apple will have their limitied market share, and I don’t see the situation change anytime soon.