2007 Tech Year In Review
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| Vista Launched and Wasn't liked
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| In late January Windows Vista launched. Many news outlets thought people
| would be lining up for Vista, similar to the Wii launch, but as luck would
| have it, the biggest, and only, line was in New York City.
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http://joshhoneycutt.blogspot.com/2007/12/2007-tech-year-in-review.html
2007's Biggest Disappointment = Vista
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| So what was the biggest disappointment of last year (2007)? Microsoft Windows
| Vista! Now it's not to say that it's a bad OS, it's just not all we expected
| it to be. We did get a new UI to make it prettier, and some extras like
| partition resizing in Disk Management, etc., but otherwise, it definitely
| feels more bloated and slower, and as a gamer, DX10 does nothing to improve
| my experience. SP2 may fix a few things, but until then, enjoy the bashing
| below...
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http://fxetc.com/?p=222
Vista Revisited
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| I’d mentioned earlier that the Vista Aero interface looked nice. This is
| strictly by Windows standards though. Anyone who has compiz installed on
| their Linux box will be sadly disappointed when they go to move one of those
| windows with the transparent glass-like window decorations only to find that
| wobbly windows or even the option to have them - just doesn’t exist. TheVista
| taskbar does give window previews on mouseover and the window changer does
| have a nice ring affect too.
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| I had to jump through a few more hoops to get the shares on the Vista box to
| play nice with the XP machine - no problems from the Linux boxes though. I
| guess it will be a while before Redmond realizes that tightening “security”
| in this manner is really just more pretty decoration.
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http://rackit.gartnerwebdev.com/2007/12/31/vista-revisited/
Worst product of the year according to CNET, PCWorld, even listed in Yahoo (see
below)...
Related:
10 Worst Tech Products of 2007
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| Windows Vista: Where to begin? Vista arrived in stores months late, forced
| untold thousands of users to upgrade their hardware, made mincemeat of
| software and drivers that worked perfectly well in XP, ended up lacking many
| of the bold-faced features we'd been promised, and came saddled with new and
| annoying set of video DRM schemes. At least Vista now boasts an option for
| downgrading back to XP.
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http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/9908
The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007
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| #1. No Wow, No How: Windows Vista
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| Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140583-page,5-c,techindustrytrends/article.html
Vista makes the list as one of the top-10 worst consumer tech products of all
time
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| Pretty bad. But top ten of all time? That's mighty impressive.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9823042-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
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.
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| 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
Interesting comment from CompUSA
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| Every single one of them he said was returned from consumers... and that they
| (CompUSA) couldn't ship them back. As he heard, Microsoft wasn't giving
| credit back for unsold or returned copies... and didn't want the returned
| figures made public... He wouldn't say that every single one of them
| exchanged for a copy of Xp, he didn't know if that was true. So, I asked how
| many boxes did they have. Same glare, followed with a "You do not want to
| know" type statement.
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http://zerias.blogspot.com/2007/12/interesting-comment-from-compusa.html
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Currys group blames Vista for poor sales
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| DSG, the group behind Currys and PC World, has warned that poor sales of
| Vista could slash its profits by around £20 million.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/131507/currys-group-blames-vista-for-poor-sales.html
DSG continues retailer woes
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| DSG, the company formerly known as Dixons, became the latest British retailer
| to report a drop in profits for the summer months today. But it wasn’t all
| down to the rotten weather – this time it was also Microsoft’s fault.
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http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/newsalerts/article/748756/dsg-continues-retailer-woes/
Dell casts doubts on Vista
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| Dell today revealed that it will restore the option to use Windows XP on
| some of its home systems, marking a potentially damaging blow to
| Microsoft's hopes for the newer Windows Vista.
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| [...]
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| While a popular request through the company's IdeaStorm website, the
| choice was substantially outnumbered by requests for pre-installed
| Linux, US-based technical support, and other features -- pointing to a
| larger general demand for the change. The turnaround may be a reflection of
| an overall backlash against Vista, observed IDC analyst Richard Shim.
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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/04/19/dell.casts.doubts.on.vista/
Lenovo offers downgrade from Windows Vista to Windows XP
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| My colleague Stian just sent me this interesting link regarding my
| experiences with Windows Vista. Since I assume the link will NOT have the
| visual appearence it has right now for very many more hours (days) I've
| created a screenshot of how it looked when I went into the site.
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http://jaxed.org/lenovo-offers-downgrade-from-windows-vista-to-windows-xp.blog
Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
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| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
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| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
The End of the Vista Experiment
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| Over a year ago, I bought a new computer. This was a carefully considered
| decision, as I don't change computers that often and so try to get something
| I will be satisfied with for as long as possible.
|
| [...]
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| But as far as my desktop OS, yesterday I reinstalled XP on the silent
| machine, and it doesn't look like I'm going to be trying Vista again until I
| hear some really, really good things about Service Pack 2. Basically, I'm
| done experimenting with Microsoft OSes for at least a year and a half.
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http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=221497
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