Broken Windows (Microsoft [VISTA] style)

So, we are looking into the future (still distant: three years after anouencing the new OS) and microsoft windows has yet to fufill thier longhorn promice.

The new Microsoft OS looks to be catching a ride on the crap train faster than its windows 95 ancestor. Even the Microsoft fanboys are getting worried [ http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/...ta_5308_05.asp ]

The article does not make any absolution, but even for the enthused Windows OS fan, it puts a heavy handed perspective on things. I wasx even looking forward to athis installment, and hoping windows may yet redeem itself, and I am in way going to count it out yet - I am just stating that things look rather grim.

So, what are your anticipations for the future of Windows (this release and beyond)?

Are you excited for the new release, or curious in the least?

Bipper

Not really. The majority of the innovative addons and integrated software I won't ever use. I don't know enough about the technical specs, but I've always saw Vista as 'a waste of your video card'.

I wasn't always this way. In fact I was intending for this to be my first and only 'official' windows purchase.

I know a friend beta testing Windows Vista. He told me that every beta he tried, it sucked more and more resources from the system: first, like, 128 MB RAM, then 200+, now 300+, in a PC with 500 MB RAM. At which I replied: "Is Mr. Gates making fun of us all? I thought a good operating system was that which uses the least resources, not the most!"
And what about the [sarcasm] ineffable [/sarcasm] Palladium? What about the bugs and safety faults all the latest Windows releases had? What about all the useless crap they will force on us together with the system whether we want it or not, instead of making it, say, downloadable later from their site?
No, I'm definitely not looking forward to Windows Vista. Actually, I hope I never will be in the condition of having to install it forcibly.

I beleive microsoft tries to use up resources to push the hardware industry further (colation w/ other technologies), and cause people to upgrade. It is just my paranoia though :) Though I am sure there is more merit to that claim than one may think. :p

I'll always have Windows 2000 if Vista goes belly-up. So I'm not too worried.

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I wasx even looking forward to athis installment, and hoping windows may yet redeem itself, and I am in way going to count it out yet...

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Upon what do you base this opinion? Their previous seven high-quality operating systems?

Microsoft's goal is not to make a good product. It's to sell a lot of product and make a lot of money. Sometimes making a good product is a good way to achieve the goal of selling a lot of product. But it's much cheaper to make garbage if you know everyone is going to buy it from you anyways. Or at the very least, make the bare minimum semi-garbage that most people will still buy from you. Or even better, make whatever level of garbage Dell and friends will buy from you, since whatever Dell pre-installs on its computers is what 99% of people will use.

I will never buy Vista, nope. My prediction is that it will suck hard and still be a smashing success (in that it makes lots of money for MS). Very much like their previous seven operating systems.

I really had no opinion of Vista - nothing for nor against it, because I don't really care and have no intent to upgrade - for the longest time, until the idea of it being a proprietary gaming platform. Alienating other OSes is one thing, but alienating their own OSes? I just hope the folks at the Cedega project can crack whatever crap they make, and that more software companies will take note from iD and do crossplatform OGL engines. Which probably won't happen. So >:(

I'm not going to waste my time with DRM issues and viewing down-sampled content on a non-DRM enabled monitor. That should be criminal. Of course the movie studios are part to blame, but Micro$oft is allowing it to happen. I'll stick to the Linux/Windows (20GB game partition) method for a long while.

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I beleive microsoft tries to use up resources to push the hardware industry further (colation w/ other technologies), and cause people to upgrade. It is just my paranoia though :) Though I am sure there is more merit to that claim than one may think. :p

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If you knew what kind of things MS did in the past to promote their own products over other products that worked better, you would not feel paranoid at all.

I'm excited for Vista, Microsoft Office 12 Beta 1 was enough to trigger that. I'm excited to use Vista Paint and Vista Minesweeper. Most of all, I'm excited for Square's new MMORPG coming to Windows Vista.

Thankfully I'm running a computer with good hardware, so the resource consumption doesn't bother me.

I'll stick with XP until everything is only supported by whatever comes after XP like XP is now to all the old versions of Windows. Operating systems really, really don't mean that much to me. I'm always going to use the operating system that I can obtain the cheapest products with and has the widest range of compatability.

I was excited about vista until I heard about the requirements, the cost, and about how poorly implemented some of the new features seem to be.

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Upon what do you base this opinion? Their previous seven high-quality operating systems?

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Nothing really, just blantant high hopes that they would follow the trends of linux, which they are OBVIOUSLY trying to replicate on thier own OS. Smurf Micro$uck. ;)

Aside from that, I am excited, as it seems the release is going to be rushed and suck even worse than anyone has anticipated. Another nail in the coffin, so-to-speak.

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Operating systems really, really don't mean that much to me. I'm always going to use the operating system that I can obtain the cheapest products with and has the widest range of compatability.

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Sweet! You use linux! grats

Bipper

What's a longhorn promice?

OH MY GOD IT'S VISTA...I MEAN...LOOK AT IT...IT'S VISTA. I WANT VISTA EVERYTHING!! I WANT VISTA ICONS AND VISTA WALLPAPERS AND VISTA SKINS...I WANT MY WHOLE OPERATING SYSTEM TO LOOK LIKE VISTA. FOR GOD'S SAKE IT'S VISTA!! FROM NOW ON EVERYONE SHOULD CREATE VISTA SKINS ONLY...OH MY...VISTA...I CAN'T GET OVER IT. VISTA IS SO SWEET IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRAP MY PANTS. VISTA!! IF A SKIN ISN'T VISTA I DON'T WANT IT...I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR ALL OF THESE "OTHER" SKINS...VISTA IS THE ONLY ONE FOR ME. AND WHEN VISTA COMES OUT...I STILL ONLY WANT VISTA SKINS...I WANT SOMEONE TO CREATE A VISTA SKIN OF VISTA SO I CAN APPLY VISTA OVER VISTA...MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT TO HAVE DOUBLE VISTA EVERYTHING!! CAN'T YOU BELIEVE IT??? IT'S VISTA!!! I WANT A VISTA TEE-SHIRT AND CUT MY HAIR IN THE STYLE OF VISTA...OH MY GOD I'M CALLING FOR AN APPOINTMENT NOW!!! WHEN I HAVE KIDS I'M NAMING THEM ALL VISTA...I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY ARE...BOY OR GIRL OR GOAT I'M NAMING THEM ALL VISTA. I'M EVEN GOING TO GIVE THEM VISTA FOR A MIDDLE NAME AND CHANGE MY LAST NAME TO VISTA SO THAT ALL THREE OF OUR NAMES CAN BE VISTA VISTA VISTA. DEAR LORD IT'S GLORIOUS...MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S VISTA....HOLY [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img] I LOVE VISTA SO MUCH. I'M GOING TO SHAVE MY CAT TO LOOK LIKE VISTA!! I'M GOING TO EAT NOTHING BUT FRUITY PEBBLES FOR EVERY MEAL SO THAT WHEN I CRAP IT LOOKS LIKE VISTA!! JESUS LORD IN HEAVEN IT'S VISTA...SWEET MOTHER OF GOD I CAN'T WAIT!!! I WANT THE THE UNITED STATES TO CHANGE IT'S NAME TO THE UNITED VISTA OF VISTA...MY WORD I'M CALLING MY CONGRESSMAN NOW....