July 31 at 12:56 am
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Installed Vista on my sister HP laptop to find out it was incompatible with a little program they used to authorize the computer on her school's wireless network, thus downgrade top even though I know vista is more secure and has a much improved u.i. Coming from a Mac users that means alot lol. Vista just has too many issues with drivers and old software, kind of reminds me on Windows More Errors Awesome article Scoble.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker
Vista with current apps and hardware is perfectly fine - Roberto Bonini
Yup, with curent apps and hardware, but people needs backwards compatability with older systems, especially in case of universities and companies who running software compatible mostly with xp... your out of luck.. this means for home user vista is the best choice, but once your have connect with business or university networks with specialized software, you need xp. again... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
Its a chicken and egg problem: to get business to adopt vista, they need vista compat apps. To get vista compat apps, there needs to be a sizable market for them. - Roberto Bonini
I started to read your post and had to stop when I read: "if you read this blog, you know I pretty much hate Microsoft, because of their incredibly shady business practices...." To me this eliminate you as a trustworthy critic of Microsoft. Yes, there where problems with Vista when it was released. Just as there were problems with Apple's Leopard, IPhone 3G, and MobileMe. The Enterprise will adopt Vista in due course — where else will they go? - Otis
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@Otis I agree with you that the enterprise will adopt vista, they have when Ms drops support for Xp. But that does not explain why the "enterprise" and MS do not work together to make sure that software and networks remain compatible without having to worry about what ms windows X version your using.. otherwise, the entriprise might as wel switch to mac, if compatibility cannot be assured... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
Microsoft Hate is so corny. - Sprague D
@Otis If you ignore that comment, he actually makes some good points regarding the 'experiment'. - Paul Grav
thanks Paul, its better comment than "MS hate is so corny"... I believe you should expect some quality from a product that ms has taken 3-4 years to develop. I also know its a huge amount of code and remains human work.. so of course it will have bugs, but vista's been out for almost 2 years... now.. and it's had sp 1 as wel.. but company adaption still is mininal.... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
What Otis said. "You know how much I incredibly hate X, so here's why X sucks" - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
this site cracks me up. Vista is a great demo product. That I not the problem. Living with it is the problem. - gfurry
@Sebastiaan I work in IT at our local University, so I know the software compatibility problems with Vista and how it caused use not to move quickly to Vista. It has only been in the last few month that most of the software we use, such as Novell, SAP, and Cisco, have produced compatible versions of their software for Vista. Is that Microsoft's fault or the software vendor's fault? Part of it is Microsoft's fault because of the messy process they went through to develop Vista, but the vendors had exposure to Vista during it's development in order to help them timely produce compatible products and drivers. - Otis
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Some people may never like OS x, that their problem, but is funny to see the ms with 90% of OS market share in there hands can't even get there most loyal users to upgade, becuase if they do, there software won't work anymore... Apple take advantage of this, getting more poeple to switch to Leopard.. good for them.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker
@Otis. You're right. It's not all Microsofts fault, but it doesn't matter. If a user's experience of Vista is that their printer didn't work, or their VPN software didn't work, then that user isn't going to blame the printer manufacturer or the VPN software manufacture, they'll blame MS. Especially when such devices, drivers or software worked perfectly fine under XP. Personally, I don't have any sympathy at all for their plight. - Paul Grav
@Otis it still leaves the customer hanging in the middle because MS and a software vendor can't get their act together. So, in about year or 2, more companies will switch to vista, and the whole process repeats itself when the new version of windows hits the shelves.. - Sebastiaan van den Akker
@Sebastiaan I agree with you that the marketing problem is Microsoft's. They released Vista too soon. But, the criticism of Vista as an OS by the tech media is out of proportion to reality. - Otis
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Well, not all the Tech media is really negative about Vista, the security, U.I and stability is much better than xp... just software compatibility is not up 2 par.. one of the USP (Unique selling points i.e. comparing it to Mac OS X or Linux or other OS) of vista... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
I guess because they have too... When you are mac user in windows world everyone use ms office, and if you need 100% compatibility you need office for mac 2008... - Sebastiaan van den Akker
