Farewell Vista, Hello XP
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| Unfortunately, small time-wasting annoyances in Vista cropped up almost
| immediately. Auto-complete of e-mail addresses in Windows Mail works only
| with the 29 most recently used contacts (I have well over a thousand), and
| overall the program is slow. The Search Indexer had an irritating tendency to
| start when I watched an HD DVD, and despite of the absence of multimedia
| files in a folder, most folders showed useless columns for Artists, Tags, and
| Ratings. I must have wasted an hour changing them to Size and Date Modified
| headings--and then the folder would sometimes magically change from detail
| view to icon view. To be fair, that last part is a holdover bug from XP, but
| all I've described was just the tip of the iceberg.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/140283/farewell_vista_hello_xp.html
Related:
Why Vista Backlash Is Growing Rapidly
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| Here are my user driven reasons why Vista is suffering the shame of bad
| software in users' eyes.
|
| 1. Vista lacks user centered innovation that benefits users directly
|
| [...]
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| 2. Vista and Office 2007 impose a big productivity loss
|
| [...]
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| 3. Vista performance is poor
|
| [...]
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| 4. Vista has a high user annoyance factor
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22465?ts0hb=&story=ab52_ht
Linux Says Bye-bye Windows XP!
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| It's been one of those months! My computer crashed taking with it crucial
| XP system files. This is the 3rd crash in the last year and I've finally
| had enough with the Windows operating system!
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http://www.richtam123.com/wp/?p=20
Windows Vista, The best thing that ever happened to Linux?
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| Millions of these units have been ordered by Countries such as
| Nigeria and Libya and pretty soon there will be millions of
| children around the world with Linux as their first operating
| system.
|
| In stark contrast Microsoft have just released Windows Vista,
| probably the most resource hungry Operating System ever, for
| the PC platform.
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http://www.otezz.net/windows-vista-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-linux/
Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft
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| Despite the heightened competition over the last two quarters from
| Microsoft-Novell and a move by Oracle to undercut Red Hat on the cost of Red
| Hat Linux support service, Red Hat has reported double-digit growth in
| revenue and an increase in profit.
|
| “The success of Red Hat has been able to validate the future potential for
| open source software,” Szulik says.
|
| Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC’s Gillen,
| because there isn’t as much of the legacy Windows technology to have to
| displace.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072507-linux-microsoft-gains.html?page=3
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