[wideawake]

Vista is absolute garbage. Selling it as an OS is criminal fraud.

The fact that Microsoft ran an ad campaign that rested on the premise that Vista is not as horrible as most people have been led to believe is proof.

[Rocco DiPippo]

I wouldn’t say Vista is absolute garbage, but it doesn’t knock me out. For 6 months now I’ve been running both XP and Vista on my two year old HP with 2GB of ram. Dumped all the slick, RAM-eating eye candy from Vista and it runs about as well as XP. But I just don’t experience any major advantages to using it when compared to XP, which is simple, light and reliable as hell. 90% of the time, I just boot into XP and get on with things. I won’t even bother with the next Windows release. Maybe when I get the time, I’ll play around with Linux and see if it’s worth easing into that, and away from Windows before XP becomes obsolete.

[Publius6961]

The fact that Microsoft ran an ad campaign that rested on the premise that Vista is not as horrible as most people have been led to believe is proof.

I have a slightly different view.
I see Microsoft as betting the farm on DRM, and perpetual income from the entertainment industry as the reward.

Is everybody on board with the concept of "scalability?"
MS planned to make billions from the "entertainment" industry, by focusing the OS on pretecting them rather than providing efficient and safe solutions to the users of their products.

With VISTA, their grand scheme crashed. The buyers refused to cooperate, and to finance their grand design by using mediocre, power-robbing software.

The users simply refused to play the game.

And Microsoft still hasn't seen the handwriting on the wall!