Windows Vista review
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| From reading other people's reviews, and Microsoft's marketing materials,
| I was expecting a much more intelligently designed operating
| environment. Microsoft is a gigantic company that had every resource
| imaginable -- time, money, talent, market power -- available to it to
| design the world's best operating system, and Vista is nowhere near
| the top of that potential. To use a car analogy, Vista should have
| been the Acura NSX of operating systems; instead it ended up a
| DeLorean DMC-12 -- it looks cool and has a few interesting features,
| but performs poorly and is impractical in nearly any imaginable
| scenario. I suspect the source of Vista's design problems are at the
| top of the management chain -- the so-called "Chief Software Architect"
| seems incapable of designing technologically advanced, maximally
| useful software, or at very least fostering a corporate environment
| in which competent employees can design it for him. I'd recommend
| that he be replaced, but I'm pretty sure he owns a majority of the
| company's stock.
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| I definitely do not recommend upgrading to Vista from any previous
| edition of Windows. If you end up stuck with Vista because you've
| bought a new PC, there are other operating system options available
| to you -- most appropriately, GNU/Linux in the form of openSUSE,
| Mandriva, Ubuntu, Xandros, Linspire, and Freespire. Through a
| framework like CrossOver Linux or Cedega (or even Wine), you'll
| be better enabled to run your older Windows programs, and you'll
| have better hardware support than Windows Vista offers.
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| Not only is Vista uncompetitive with other current desktop operating
| systems, it's also a step down from its predecessors.
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http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/77
The theory says that the latest attacks on Linux are intended to divert
people's attention away from the disaster that is Windows Vista. Even
silence would be better than vocal mentioning of Vista because the feedback
is consistently negative. PR and forced OEM preinstalls would do the trick.
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