Vista

[NickFitz]

I think half the complaints aren't complaints at all, but rather people asking "what's the point?". Even 18 months after release, there are few/no compelling reasons for anybody to "upgrade" to Vista. I guess MS have themselves to blame for making Windows XP too stable/fast/well supported in its twilight years.

That's the real problem - so many of the features that were supposed to make the-OS-eventually-called-Vista something special were pulled (such as WinFS), largely because of the major developer effort that had to be transferred to improving security for XP SP2 and Server 2003. In the end what was delivered gives the impression of simply having a few glitzy UI features which scarcely make it worthwhile to leave XP SP2/SP3.

Come to think of it, there are few everyday that I wouldn't be able to do with Windows 2000, and it's now 9 years old. Are the cracks in Microsoft's OS business model beginning to show?

I think the only reason I'd be cautious about using Win2K is that it hasn't benefited from the major security improvements seen in XP SP2 - I'd be wary of attaching it to the Internet without a very solid external firewall in place. Other than that it really does most or all of what one needs from a Windows machine.

 

[VectraMan]

Come to think of it, there are few everyday that I wouldn't be able to do with Windows 2000, and it's now 9 years old. Are the cracks in Microsoft's OS business model beginning to show?

I agree - the only real benefit of XP over Win2K I've seen is being able to switch users.

 

[NickFitz]

Some additional thoughts on Vista from Bruce Lawson

 

[Spacecadet]

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2006/04/apple_fans/13.jpg

Is this you Nick?

 

[NickFitz]

http://www.wired.com/images/slideshow/2006/04/apple_fans/13.jpg

Is this you Nick?

No... I'm not bald and I don't wear a leather jacket.

Anyway, I'd be using the consultants' entrance

 

[RichardCranium]

I'd be using the consultants' entrance

That sounds like one of SockPuppet's appalling euphemisms...

 

[NickFitz]

That sounds like one of SockPuppet's appalling euphemisms...

He's not called "Steve Jobs" for nothing

 

[scooterscot]

Wonder where they got that idea?

<Looks at "Location" preferences introduced in OS X in 1999>

Ah yes - so Windows has that now? Jolly good, looks like they're starting to work out how to write an OS

I was about to say my iPhone does this

 

[Diver]

Guess who's using Win2k & IE6...

So you finally upgraded

 

[Diver]

PS. I Like Vista