“It seems that Microsoft is already giving up on Vista and is setting up business users to switch from XP to Windows 7,” Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes for eWeek.
“Technically, Vista is pure misery. It eats system resources like an elephant does peanuts, Windows applications break and its so-called improved security is a joke. I know it. You know it. Even Microsoft’s most devoted yes-men know it–although they won’t admit it–and perhaps Microsoft knows it as well,” Vaughan-Nichols writes.
Vaughan-Nichols asks, “What else can explain why Microsoft is now leaking news about Windows 7, the next version of Windows?”
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft said on Wednesday that “Windows 7” is still in the planning stage and will take three years to develop. And that’s before it starts slipping, Longhorn Vista-style. Moo. If you’re a freshman in college, you’ll have your bachelor’s degree (at least) before “Windows 7” ships (you know, the one that Microsoft hopes will finally be able to compete with Mac OS X Tiger, released April 29, 2005).
“Could Vista have missed its shot? Yes, yes, I know, how can I say this when there are tens of millions of copies of it out there? Easily. It’s one thing to drop copies of Vista Home Basic and Premium on Best Buy customers who don’t know any better. It’s another thing entirely to get CIOs and IT managers to spend—or should I say waste?—billions on Vista,” Vaughan-Nichols writes.
“For now, whether Microsoft likes it or not, XP, and not Vista, is the Windows those businesses will continue to use,” Vaughan-Nichols writes. “And the companies that want to move on to a truly better operating system? They’ll be moving to Linux or Mac OS.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft’s unending string of unfulfilled promises will be their ultimate downfall. More and more people are realizing that if they want something that works like a Mac, they should Get a Mac.
Make sure you buy a new PC that is “Windows 7 certified”
12 gb RAM, 1.5 Tb hard drive, 4 gb graphics card.
every nub starts out aggressively
Could this yahoo deal be the final nail for Ballmer? That’s a load of money just for some “search” market share.
How cool would it be if businesses insisted on XP upgrades for the next 5 years instead of upgrading to Vista? MS doesn’t make money on updates…could really send a message when those quarterly revenue reports come out.
The other day I was at a friend’s place in Queensland and got a chance to play around with Vista. What a pain in the butt. Every time I tried to download etc. I kept getting this bloody dialogue box. It was such a lousy experience.
The funny thing was that every time I mentioned Macs I kept getting a reply of “Oh no macs just aren’t as good” or they’re not compatible.” At least I tried.
My view is Steve Vaughan-Nichols is wrong about “It seems that Microsoft is already giving up on Vista and is setting up business users to switch from XP to Windows 7,”. Recall that Microsoft initially announced that it was planning to release Win7 around 2009. Now they are planned to do this around 2011. I believe they are making a marketing move to wring more money out of Vista (i.e. not giving up on it). Vista is not selling as well as people thought it should, but 100 Million+ is still good money. If Microsoft would release Win7 in 2009 it would cut into or stall future Vista sales. Corporations are usually slow to change, and a gap of only 2-3 years from Vista SP1 to Win7 might justify waiting for Win7. This would avoid, for a corporation, the disruption (i.e. risk, cost, etc.) of migrating to Vista. However, for Microsoft this 2-3 years would likely result in a larger then planned sales drop in Vista sales (and revenue).
By moving Win7 out four years, it should force the people who would “be fence sitting” about upgrading to Vista, to make the decision to move to it. Recall also to that Microsoft will be dropping support for XP during this time. In addition they will add service packs and features to Vista. These will likely not make Vista perfect but will remove some of the rough edges (i.e. recall history; compare XP to XP SP1 and XP SP2). This should make Vista upgrading appear to be a risk reducing move for corporations in a year or so from now. This should drive more Vista sales.
So my view is by increasing the amount of time before Win7 comes out from the initial announcements of 2009 to 2011, Microsoft will be driving more businesses/corporations to go to Vista before Win7 is released. Considering the investment in Vista, internally at Microsoft this approach would be a good business strategy. Microsoft is actually throwing more support behind Vista, not less by doing this.
That makes one of us!
I’ve heard that some people also enjoy regularly jamming a fork in their eye, but I’m passing on that too.
‘Still our marketing and sales department are looking forward to getting Apple notebooks’
Funny coincidence-my general manager just finally relented to getting our sales director a shiny new MacBook; it arrived this week, and having seen it, seen the actual numbers on cost, and seen what it can do, suddenly she says everything else in the office is, and I quote, ‘shit’. More MacBooks are on the way, we dodged the Vista bullet all together! Hallelujah.
“However it’s gonna take more than a Ford partnership to keep MS afloat.”
having their OSes on 97% of PCs brought in the world also seems to be working well to keep them afloat.
@Fedup
“…Vista I think is rather nice,…”
Well, you just lost all credibility on THIS forum.
Re read ZT’s post with this thought in mind. ZT is really a Mac user and is being sarcastic. It reads differently.
Re read ZT’s post with this thought in mind. ZT is really a Mac user and is being sarcastic. It reads differently.
Re read ZT’s post with this thought in mind. ZT is really a Mac user and is being sarcastic. It reads differently.
Re read ZT’s post with this thought in mind. ZT is really a Mac user and is being sarcastic. It reads differently.
Re read ZT’s post with this thought in mind. ZT is really a Mac user and is being sarcastic. It reads differently.
Ampar & LorD1776:
When all else fails you two avoid the original point of discussion and resort to nonsensical ramblings. You might find such distractions comforting when becoming confused and anxious, but it it obvious that you have nothing more to add to the argument and probably never did.
Harry:
Yer right, in a purely grammatical sense, I was hoping to emphasis the ridiculous notion expressed by some who think that a registered alias imparts greater weight to a thread than an unregistered alias. Those individuals have yet to provide any evidence that registering their alias imparts any special intellectual powers or mental acuity.
I was hoping to emphasis the ridiculous notion expressed by some who think that a registered alias imparts greater weight to a thread than an unregistered alias.
Registering adds nothing what-so-ever here. Take Zune Tang for instance. A registered troll.
Those individuals have yet to provide any evidence that registering their alias imparts any special intellectual powers or mental acuity.
Actually it shows stupidity, because it gives MDN the chance to send spam to one\’s email addy (if mouse over pop-ups and javascript exploit pop-under\’s wasn\’t enough) and doesn\’t give one the liberty to say what the fsck they want.
Sure you can be IP banned, but it\’s only temporary and there are work arounds, it never stopped me and it\’s fun to change personalities and nicks.
LorD1776: Someone skipped his nappy.
I own a Ford Edge and specifically deleted this overblown POS from the options list. The manual is over 80 pages long!
Which is reasonably good for a first-effort MS product.
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And which amazes me Apple leaves MS alone in that market…
Aaaah, isn’t that cute. Ampar and LorD1776 have a special relationship.
What interest would ya imagine that people would have in witnessing yer public displays of affection? And why would ya be so willing to publicly reveal yer fanboi fondness fer each other?
I’m suspecting ya’ll find comfort together when yer flimsy fanboi fantasy world in shaken. I mock you.
For Microsoft to make Windows 7 a success, they will have to rebuilt it from the ground up like Apple did OS X.
Trouble is they don’t have anything like NEXT to start with (unless they find a way to buy Be OS or some such) like Apple did.
What ever they wind up doing they will get as close to Mac OS as possible and act as if they invented the whole shebang in the first place, with Apple copying every scrap of code that no matter that it having been written before Windows 7 release.
And it will be a nightmare to support and if anyone is psychotic enough to understand how to support it, they will carry an air of smug self importance.
Apple. Real Intelligent Design®
Kisses, Phred. <smooch>
FoxPt: Summarize, please.
I just don’t get it. Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, a few apps break, and everyone acts like they committed an unthinkable act… touting this as proof Windows sucks. Apple releases an new version of OS X (hell.. even a point update), it breaks a few apps, and everyone shrugs and waits for the apps to get updated. Ok… I’m a Mac user and a switcher, but seriously people, WTF?
“I just don’t get it. Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, a few apps break, and everyone acts like they committed an unthinkable act.”
Are you that young? Good fucking god.
Have you ever heard of Lotus?