Is Windows Vista ready for you?
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| Regardless of how much the vendors are to blame, and how much MS
| is, the Vista Upgrade Advisor is sure to be a marketing fiasco.
| Ideally, it should be a tool to help consumers choose an edition
| of Vista that will work for them, and reassure them that they can
| upgrade if they want to, without having to buy new equipment.
| Instead, it demonstrates nothing so much as the fact that Vista
| is still half-baked. No one is going to buy it if they sense
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| that it's not ready to run their machines and applications
| smoothly. And yet, that is the distinct impression that the
| Advisor utility gave me.
|
| I'm quite ready for Vista, as most users are. The real
| problem is that, this late in the game, Vista doesn't
| appear at all ready for us.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/29/windows_vista_still_not_ready/
Related:
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
|
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125
What happened to the guts?
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| Of one thing I am fairly certain. Microsoft all but eliminated
| mainstream software competition. As a result, Microsoft became
| the primary source of advertising revenue for mainstream publications.
| You don't bite the hand that feeds you. So instead of publishing
| issues calling for a worldwide boycott of Vista because it focuses
| more on what you can't do than what you can do, you see special
| editions praising Vista as the greatest advancement in computing
| since Windows 95. Granted we all know that Windows 95 was a dog
| from day one, but by the 90s, the mainstream press had already
| become rampant with Microsoft sycophants and they pushed Windows
| 95 like it was the second coming.
|
| [...]
|
| In short, I'd love to see a mainstream publication become an
| advocate for the consumer once again.
|
| As noted above, there are exceptions, including Linux Journal,
| most other FOSS-centered publications and even The Register.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^
| But we're the little guys.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000173
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