Sunday, May 25th 2008
Technology Analyst: Get Over Vista Hate
A reporter and technology analyst for the Washington Post recently took a rather strong point of view regarding Windows Vista and XP. He accepts that Vista has it's flaws, such as "steep hardware requirements, its strict anti-piracy measures, its sometimes-intrusive security measures, its incompatibility with some older products." However, he points out that the current market behavior, which is something along the lines of "don't upgrade until Vista gets better, and beg to keep XP on shelves" is not doing Vista or Microsoft any good. He points out that XP is not a historic monument in need of preservation, and is more like an old car: it's had a good run, but in view of some XP flaws when compared to Vista strongpoints, it's time to move on. The analyst also pointed out that fundamental supply/demand economics is keeping Vista from rising to greatness. As long as the market holds on to XP, and refuses to move on to Vista, software makers will not see a very good reason to adopt or support Vista, which causes most of the problems Vista has today. You can read more details at the source link.
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Daily Tech
157 Comments on Technology Analyst: Get Over Vista Hate
I ask your forgiveness for my crassness in earlier posts of this thread. I am sure your tribulations with VISTA have only drawn it closer to your hearts. There is a saying in the US Military...goes something like this.....That with which you suffer most...you love most. Take my wife.....for example!
Regards,
jtleon
I am, and have been, speaking of the general computer using populace.
at least thats how you come off to me from what you have said.
and ms's main $ maker is not home users, its buisness contracts, and they put out an os that big busness dosnt want, because it breaks things they need.
(sorry m8 but i had to, you left that one wide open)
And I'm tired of this argument with you. Yeah, we get it, you don't like Vista. But you still haven't provided anything valid to prove it's a bad OS. You can bash Vista all you want. The fact is, you don't have much experience with it. All you are doing is rehashing things you've heard on the internet, most of which, like buggy code and instability, has been taken care of. So have the performance issues. The only valid point brought up in this thread so far, is the way Vista handles audio.
so your xp is as limmited in media playback unless u crack it line of shit isnt working here.....
as to the vga thing, yes it still works using a VGA cable was a consession the mpaa had to make because ms pointed out they couldnt force people to buy monotors that where hdcp enabled, ms acctualy did something smart in that case, because alot of people would have told them where to stick it if they couldnt use their current monotor(if i spent 500-600bucks on a 22-24in high range crt and was told i had to buy another one because the mpaa said so....well u can guess what i and most of us would say....well other then you, you would just happly run out and get an hdmi/hdcp monotor)
oh and wileE you also fail to note that when they lock down playback quility via windows patches based on videocard or drivers not being approved, this effects ALL content, be it home movies, anime, or fraps stuff you yourself recorded, so it would effect you even if you dont have an HD player/drive in your system(b4 any of you twats try and point out that HD-DVD is dead, yes i know i ment HD as in High Def, that covers HD-DVD, BluRay and some other formats as well.)
i know i need to use vista for a year b4 i have a right to say anything bad about it.....fuck that.
Can anyone confirm that VISTA SP1 now supports OpenGL? I had heard otherwise.
Regards,
jtleon
its not that i hate vista, i hate how vista works and feels, IF they where to get it out of the "feels like a beta" stages i wouldnt mind it, but i CANT stand how clunky it feels, yes even after sp1 i have used it on my buddys lappy(he had me update it since his home net is 128k dsl and my nets 5mbit) it still to me feels unpolished, like its not quite there, i know, i must not have ever used it in order to not like it tho........
as to copyed code, i didnt mean it copyed lines or code, but your talking as if fetures ms emplimented where new exciting ms inventions, and ms dosnt invent or innovate 99% of the time, they COPY, i used system restore as an expample because its the easyist one to point out that EVERYBODY knows about, ms got sued over it, they flat out copyed it and put that copy in ME then tweaked it a bit and put it in xp..........it was harolded by mags and online sites and forums posters as an incrediable innovation/invention, but it wasnt even a good copy job, as the 3rd party software had less buggs and didnt lockdown and backup viruses(if a backup was infected you could clean it!!!)
i understand better then most why windows has the issues it has, back in the super7 and socketA days the biggist plauge on me and the shops i worked for where cheap via based motherboards, jesus, 99/100 times if somebody brought in a buggy amd system it was because the board was a cheap(or in some cases expencive) via based board, swap it out for any other chipset and bam no more problems.........
and i have said for years that the only reasion that mac's use to have less problems then cheap/poorly built pc's was that they had VERY limmited hardware, yet in my experiance they had just as many problems as a decently built pc, if not more due to their os being a PITA.....
god i dont miss those days, at least today via isnt making chipsets for amd market, and the few being used are "ok" as long as u dont tweak them ;)
If vista ever gets to a point where to me it dosnt feel clunky and most of my apps will work, then i will use it, till then, why would i want to trade rock solid stable and fast for vista?
And I have yet to see any other content blocked on Vista, other than DRM content. That's just a load of BS.
I've tried Vista in early October, with a AMD 3000+ and x1650 pro... I got it running, but the card got so hot that it was bsod every 15 mins of it running.... But, when I set up my new rig, I haven't turned back... I went xp for a few weeks because I was testing something.... but I rather have Vista, and won't tell another person not to. Its something new that you have to get a handle with... I'm a Chef at a Hospital... Every 3 months I have to change the way I do things because of how HCA thinks things are... So, learning a new os was cake walk compared to how many steps it takes to cut piece of meat..
Seriously, what are you even on about? What is it that I'm biased about? What am I misguided about? So, is it my opinion that vista only bsods when it's a hardware issue or I've overclocked too much? MAYBE It's just an opinion that it doesn't crash for me, maybe it actually DOES, but I'm so misguided that I'm convinced it doesn't. Is it my opinion that vista runs well and stable for me, ie, no crashes unless it's a hardware fault? That can never be an opinion, it either does or it doesn't. I'm not even against XP, i prefer vista, but I've used XP for years previously. I think your argument has got to the point that you don't actually where your influences from what you've read starts, and your opinion ends. :confused:
You need to back up onto a broom handle wrapped in coarse sand paper. :rolleyes: