Lets stop knocking Vista

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Rich schrieb:
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We're all going to be using ... Vista in the near future ...
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This prophecy will definitely not be fulfilled.

Vista will be pushed into the consumer market via OEM computers, but
business / industry will remain most reluctant before migrating to a
new OS - at least before SP2.

Roy
 
That's maybe not be true , What happen when Windows ME came out ? It didn't
do very well in sales , I can see the same with Vista
 
The consumer market covers a lot of users and small businesses. I agree that
larger businesses / industry will hold back but the average small business
at least here in the UK just accepts what they are given with their new PCs.

Rich
 
Maybe this is a good post to put into the diary - say to revisit 12
months hence?

Soothsaying seems to be an artform.

My own "dabbling" in it prophesies that the jump between XP and Vista is
on a par with Windows 3 and Windows 95.

I may be wrong but it will be interesting to see what happens in broader
context and user uptake.

Nonetheless, a quantum leap it seems to be all the same (in my opinion).
 
The upgrade to Vista is more like the upgrade to Win95 than to WinXP in
terms of things that change and break. You might recall that the original
OEM version of Win95 was never applauded and as time went on it was
absolutely and thoroughly hated.

Jon
 
That may indeed be true.

What is also true is that

- it brought a whole new bunch of people into IT, computers and computing

- it defined a consumer based spec (note not governmental or
international committee lead spec) into existence. (Most people, like
myself, experienced a turn off from computing at the myriad of operating
systems that abounded none of which were willing to talk to each other
on a meaningful basis. At corporate levels this hamstrung many
organizations)

- OS2 (remember IBM?) could have taken the business but consumers were
reluctant to pay for it and those that did soon found Windowss 95 more
appealing for a variety of factors)
 
Rich said:
Why does every one want to knock it? I've been using Vista since RC1 and I
like it, for me it has been very stable. Yes it is different, but thats what
every one said about XP at the time and now at least in this forum every one
is singing it's praises.

One of the biggest hurdles when developing new software is maintaining
backwards compatibility and at some point in order to move forward you have
to sacrifice that compatibility. I'd rather see Windows move forward than be
compatible with Office 97 just because Joe Bloggs likes it more because he
is used to it.

Software compatibility issues aren't something that Microsoft invented
either. Apple also had similar compatibility issues when they launched OS 9
and OS X.

We're all going to be using / supporting Vista in the near future so lets be
more productive with our time and stop putting Vista down and try and
resolve faults rather than moan about them.
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