the real reason Vista will really suck

[IdaGno]

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now.html

Vista - I wouldn't buy it with someone else's money. Then again What do I know, I've only been testing the dog for the last 2-3 yrs...

 

[kamper]

Is that your blog? Otherwise, please put the above in [ q ]s because it is mighty misleading.

I found that an interesting read when I came across it a few days ago, although I gave up after maybe 100 comments. Seemed weird that so many supposed ms employees took the delay way more seriously than I thought it was. I wonder if that was an anomaly (like maybe people who hit that blog tend to be the more dissatisfied faction within the company).

 

[DasFox]

Boy Vista isn't looking to good.

Or wait, I should say Microsoft.

 

[MadRat]

Windows 95 looked like hell in beta. Sure its GUI was nicer in practice, but it went turds up constantly. WinNT wasn't too rocky, thats one project that I honestly liked beta to delivery even though the drivers and support tools were a bit lacking at launch. We had the same growing pains as Win95 with Win2000 and then again all the same problems with WinXP. But you know what, I don't want to move back to the past. WinXP is fine today, but I bet we'll be bitching about keeping WinVista around when the next big leap from Microsoft hits the shelves.

 

[spyordie007]

Just like the saying goes...

"Opinions are like assholes -- everyone's got one"

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Just like the saying goes...

"Opinions are like assholes -- everyone's got one"

Hmm yes true that, but most of these replies are from people that work for Microsoft and some of them that been in the game for years, not exactly what I would call just lame opinions, but rather some serious issues going on.

Anyhow I really hope Vista turns out great, because I think XP sucks.

 

[MadRat]

Even though my personal tastes lay with the NT 4.0 model its plain to see XP was superior.

I'll have to just disregard any statement that stops at "XP sucks". Give specifics or be an opinion.

 

[stash]

Hmm yes true that, but most of these replies are from people that work for Microsoft and some of them that been in the game for years, not exactly what I would call just lame opinions, but rather some serious issues going on.

There are 60000 employees at Microsoft, and the Windows division is the largest. It is inevitible that there will be people with concerns. Concern and dissent among the ranks prior to an OS launch is nothing new at Microsoft. The only difference is before, there were no blogs, so the general public never heard about it.

 

[spike spiegal]

Even though my personal tastes lay with the NT 4.0 model its plain to see XP was superior.

Why, because it takes 3x more resources to run the same stupid applications you were running on NT 4.0?

J'ever load XP on a P200 with 32meg of RAM and make an office print/file/BDC server out of it like you could NT 4.0? No? But of course XP is superior because it plays games better.

Might be why a LOT of our office jobs are going to Indiana. Fatter OS's, but less efficient people.

From a productivity standpoint I don't see much difference between NT, Win2000 and XP, and fail to see Vista thrilling anybody except multimedia home users. Win95/98 were essentially a bridge from DOS/Win3.1 to Windows NT4/2000/XP, but I still fail to see what Vista is delivering other than a promised round of hardware upgrades to keep cash flow in the computer harware sector.