“Pardon me while I momentarily channel MacDailyNews, but I read a column that appeared in The Times of Johannesburg that begs to be mentioned to Microsoft-loathing Mac lovers,” David Zeiler blogs for The Baltimore Sun.
“The writer, Toby Shapshak is an award-winning technology journalist and editor,” Zeiler writes. “Shapshak declares Vista a major disaster for Microsoft and backs it up with plenty of merciless barbs.”
“The punch line comes in last paragraph when we learn that Shapshak’s recent struggles with Vista on a brand-new ThinkPad ‘was all I needed to convince myself I have done the right thing by buying a MacBook,'” Zeiler writes. “Amen, brother.”
Full article here.
Toby Shapshak writes for The Times, “Vista is too slow, too clunky, too unresponsive, too unwieldy. There are nine ways to turn Vista off or put it in standby, because there were 43 different people working in various teams on the shut-down function.”
“There is no other way to put it: Vista is a disaster. It’s not the worst piece of software Microsoft has written (that goes to Windows ME by all accounts, although I personally think Windows 98 deserved that title), but it’s right up there in the lexicon of how not to try and solve your problems. Bill Gates joked that Vista was ‘the best 6-billion I ever spent,'” Shapshak writes. “For the seven years Microsoft spent on Vista, what was it doing?”
“Hardware manufacturers have privately expressed their despair and frustration to me, as has every one who foolishly bought a new computer with Vista on it. One senior executive told me Vista runs 20percent slower than XP,” Shapshak writes.
Full article here.
No surprises here.
Vista blows
Vista running 20% slower than XP means that you are having 20% less problems per hour. Maybe that is how Microsoft should advertise it!
Apple better get ready to be able to supply the millions of Macs people will buy soon.
While at it, here is my to-do list for Apple:
Bring back color Macs, like the old iMacs, they were a hit!
Bring back HyperCard… improved!
and get rid of the default paste with style, or make it switchable in Preferences… pleeease!
Redo Dashboard and integrate into the Finder, I never use it the way it is now, either all or none… kinda stupid!
It may be old news by now but Vista may be the best thing (outside of Apple) that happened to Apple’s computer business. Out of 6 people that I know and who needed to replace their Windows computers within the last six months 5 decided to buy a Mac (4 MacBooks, 1 MacBook Pro) and only 1 decided to get a Vista.
“Bill Gates joked that Vista was ‘the best 6-billion I ever spent,'”
Sure, but he leaves out the fact he spent 6.1 billion on crap from Fingerhut.
surprising, this is not.
I experienced 2 Vista WOW’s in one day!
I was leaving St Maarten after a week of work, and stopped by one of my clients to pick up some pictures and documents. She got up from her new Dell lap top, and changed to an older lap top running XP to make the disk for me and print out the papers I needed. She told me nothing works with the new computer and they would never buy another Dell. I agreed she should never buy another Dell but explained it was the Vista on her Dell giving her the problem and told her she could go back to the store and ask them to install XP.
2 hours later in the airport at the check out counter, their entire system went down, they pulled out boxes of the old style hand written tickets and started to process us. Kidding I asked if they wanted to use my MacBook, and the guy next to me chimed in with an offer for his MacBook Pro! The lady behind the desk explained they had installed a new system a week ago, and the whole thing was crashing every few days. They told us when the system (if) was back on line they would call us to the gate to resubmit our hand written stuff into the system and give us normal boarding pass’s, or else we would have to go thru ticketing again in Miami for our connecting flights My new Mac buddy and I were having a cocktail when they called our names, when we got to the counter, it was Vista booting up! I have no idea if it was a Vista problem, but we got a kick out of it!
I got a kick out of reading that when I remembered when a lady at a location I was doing Mac IT work at told me that she heard that Vista was “more Mac-like than any other version of Windows.”
Goes to show how much she knows…she was using Vista by the way.
A word of warning: MS consultants who go out and advise on Exchange and Server 2008 implementations are using the opportunity to try and ram Vista down the throats of corporate customers.
One of my colleagues – who shall remain nameless – is currently being subjected to a “feasibility study” which is unfairly skewed seeing as he’s testing it on a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo laptop that’s stuffed with RAM. If the company he’s contracted to actually buys into it, they’re OK because they’re an company which would hardly struggle to pay for huge, new capital expenditures at this time.
But not every company is an oil company making several million in profit every day: how will they cope when they discover that 80% of their entire estate needs to be replaced in order for Vista to roll out.
VISTA is terrible. Bill Gate would have improved his kama more by giving that 6 billion to the Taliban.
@ Reclaimer
She was right! It’s very similar to System 7.
@feral,
“Vista blows”
Wow. First a foul-mouthed animated Santa and now pornographic software. Who’s running MS these days? Larry Flynt.
And XP sucks. Twin sisters?
MacGuy,
I think Apple totally missed the boat by not making a Dashboard Spaces for Leopard. Completely analogous and would be very useful. You could have a Dashboard space for sports, one for weather stuff, one for reference type widgets, etc. Whatever you wanted.
Vista was a brilliant marketing move. Everyone who buys a new PC with Vista pre-loaded will hate it so much, they will go out and buy a Windows XP license so they can wipe the hard drive and install XP. Sales of XP will skyrocket!
Unfortunately for Microsoft, in 3-5 years when those customers go out and buy their next new computer, they’ll be buying Macs.
That’s not fair.
Vista should run viruses, trojans, key loggers and other malware at least as fast as XP.
Class action suit?
“Millions of Vista users are not so lucky.”
Have they actually sold “millions?”
Or just shipped that many.
i are you single? Want to date?
@MacGuy
To integrate Dashboard into Finder, I use a widget called Dash it. Once you turn this widget on, you can move widgets onto your desktop by simply dragging them while hiding or revealing Dashboard. It’s very useful.
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Dashboard-Widgets/Webcams/Miscellaneous/Dash-It.shtml
V= crappy operating system
I= stupid gadgets
S= dumb color choices
T= dumber windoze users
A= poorly backward compatible
Correct…no correlation of the above was made. Why start now.
Signed:
the MS Vista team
“a lady at a location I was doing Mac IT work at told me that she heard that Vista was ‘more Mac-like than any other version of Windows.’ “
From her point of view I suppose it was — because it looks more like it.
With Vista’s “Aero” Windows lusers got the compositing and interface stuff that Apple had on OS X a full TEN years ago. (And technology of that quality had already been around on OS X’s predecessor NeXT for much longer — NeXTSTEP had Display PostScript, where OS X has Quartz’s PDF engine.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript
Pretty sad to think you can be years late to the party and still dominate the market. You certainly can fool most of the people most of the time.
Bill Gates joked that Vista was “the best 6-billion I ever spent”
Maybe that should be Bill Gates joked that Vista was.
6 billion: 1.5 billion* paying off companies who sued for their stolen tech, 2.5 billion* to pay for the lawyers (Preston, GATES & Ellis but they changed their name), 0.5 billion* for the launch/promotion (aka kickbacks to buddies) and 0.5 billion* to coders.
*Estimated figures but you get the idea.
The coders were overpaid
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Some new PC laptops now come with graphics chips that are Vista compatible, but not XP compatible, so users are losing their ability to ‘upgrade’ to XP without knowing it.
Take the safe XP option – but a MBP!
The irony is the comment on the original site that hosted the original article.. the third comment down, I swear i have never seen a nose so brown as this third commentator, the guy is delusionally kissing Microsoft asses and doesnt the see the bloody holes in his comment! Thats one brainwashed bloody eejit!
> For the seven years Microsoft spent on Vista, what was it doing?
It was doing the previously announced “Longhorn” project, but that turned out to be too ambitious, so Microsoft copied Apple’s “Copland to Mac OS 8/9” move. It started over and slapped Vista together in the last 18 months, making it an unstable resource-hogging less-compatible version of Windows XP.
Windows Vista will be as responsible as anything Apple has done for driving Mac OS X’s share toward 20%.