[wastedyears]

I refused to own a machine running Vista. I don’t want Microsoft to know what I do. Even if it’s just purchasing shirts off the internet.

[chaos_5]

OK, since Vista is backwards compatible for XP, and other Windows OS, what makes more business sense? Write XP software so XP and Vista users can use it, or just write Vista software and every one else is screwed?

[TheWasteLand]

Developers should like Vista. It should make them feel better about their own slow, bloated code.

[Rebelbase]

High Priest Steve Ballmer prophesies.

[rabscuttle385]

Tech ping!

[MrEdd]

Vista has much bigger problems than developers. IT people won’t let their companies near it for very good reason.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

[USNBandit]

After shutting itself down and rebooting, this morning my Vista laptop informed me that it needed to download and update. The update was a mere 196mb. I don’t care what planet you come from 196mb isn’t an update. That is a system reconfiguration.

[Doohickey]

That’s because the vast majority of applications that run on XP run just as well on Vista.

Sheesh, the crapola that gets passed off as “tech news” around here.

[ken21]

bump for read tomorrow.

[MN Libertarian 2009]

"New Coke" is good, I also saw somebody say that Vista is to XP as Windows ME was to Win98, I think that about sums it up.

A fat bloated clone with window dressing up the kazoo. I have to work with Windows for business reasons but I will stay with XP until they pry it from my cold dead motherboard.

[ShadowAce]

[prolifefirst]

I found it irritating to have to relearn where everything is on the apps.