[CedarDave]

Click the link to read the complete text of apologist Charney's laughable defense of Vista.

[CedarDave]

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[HAL9000]

From the article - "One problem is that, under antitrust rulings, Microsoft has to keep antivirus protection separate from the operating system."

No, the problem is that Windows OS is poorly designed. There is no antitrust ruling that requires Microsoft to produce low-quality crap, they just do it on their own volition.

[ShadowAce]

[antiRepublicrat]

For all the criticism, Vista is selling well, says Neil Charney, general manager of the Windows client team. Vista has sold more than 88 million copies in the past year, mostly through new PC sales,

Translation: few people buy it on purpose. Most just get it by default when they order a new PC -- people wanted a computer, but not necessarily Vista. Thus the 88 million number is not an indicator of actual demand for the product.

He notes you can speed Vista up by going into the control-panel menu and turning off the "view thumbnails" feature, which presents a mini view of an open file as you hover over it with the mouse.

Yet somehow Leopard does live previews, including flipping through any documents, rather quickly, and not on the fastest hardware with a lot of memory.

He also says compatibility is getting better. At launch, there were 1.5 million devices compatible with Vista, he said. That was three times the number for Windows XP's launc

Uh, that's because the market for PCs, and thus peripherals, has grown tremendously since then. Couple that with almost everything being USB now and you have instant compatibility.