[antiRepublicrat]

Why the rush? Vista sucks, need something people might want to buy.

[TV Dinners]

Vista works fine, at least for me.

[rovenstinez]

Lets go back to Windows 98 SE.

[autumnraine]

It’s about working out the bugs in the software. If they release it worldwide on one day, they will get hit with a gazillion complaints and make them look bad. By slow releasing it, they can get the kinks worked out before it goes out to everyone.

[webschooner]

XP fine for me ... no Visduh ... no Visduh II

[KoRn]

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[RepublitarianRoger2]

Still on XP here. Gonna skip over Vista and go straight to Windows 7.

[dayglored]

Have you seen that there will be SIX Win7 SKUs?

1. Enterprise -- all features, for large companies
2. Ultimate -- all features, for individuals
3. Professional -- some features missing
4. Home Premium -- more features missing
5. Home Basic -- most features missing, no Aero, previous low-water mark for Vista
6. Starter Edition -- nearly everything missing, can only launch 3 application MAX.

And the punchline is that Win7 is supposed to run on "netbooks", right? Well guess which SKU is targeted specifically at Netbooks?

You guessed it -- "Starter Edition". What a crock. "Cheap but useless."

By comparison, the one-and-only SKU, full-featured version of OS-X sells for $129, or $199 in 5-user family-packs. Even at $129, full-feature OS-X is less expensive than Win7 Home Basic.

Reference: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/04/windows_7_skus/

[Secret Agent Man]

They’re still selling a lot of XP O/Ss.

[right way right]

I’ll use it if Bill will pay me $100 a day for me to beta test it for him.

[Clive]

Avoid the rush. Install Linux instead

[RichardW]

Been using Vista on three computers and no problems at all. Never crashes. What is Windows 7 going to do for me? For the record I regard Vista as vastly superior to XP.

[ShadowAce]

[kevkrom]

Why the rush?

Because regardless of the truth or fiction behind it (I'm not going to debate it either way), the "Vista" brand name has been trashed and Microsoft needs to kill it off as soon as possible, even if it's just providing a patch release to Vista and renaming it.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Why the rush? Vista sucks, need something people might want to buy.

No rush at all. This release is what Windows Longhorn (that became Vista) was supposed to be. The problem is that as usual, Microsoft couldn't deliver on the 'vaporware', and after two years of delays, they cut their loses and put out in inferior product.

i have no doubts what-so-ever that Windows 7 will be the true successor to Windows XP, and Vista will become the Windows ME of the NTFS.

FWIW, i really didn't have many problems with Windows ME either, but was aware of where the problems would happen.

[TChris]

I just don't like the entire philosophy behind Vista et al. I hate the attitude it embodies. I hate that Microsoft presumes to commandeer such significant swaths of my hardware resources just for the stupid O/S. I hate that it takes a flippin' 3D graphics accelerator just to run the new UI. I hate that my potential Vista system will mostly run in slow motion with less than 2GB of RAM. (!!) I hate that performance and power are sacrificed on the altar of eye candy. I hate that the best that hundreds of Windows developers could come up with for security was to annoy the user every couple of minutes, getting permission to do what you just told it to do. I hate that Microsoft has worked so hard to create unrealistic expectations for the ease of use of a modern computer, then implemented increasingly draconian methods in its pursuit of fulfilling them.

I am steadily moving in heart and mind toward the Linux and BSD world. My decades of experience with MS operating systems will take a while to replicate there. That's a pain. I don't like climbing a learning curve I've already climbed once.

[Still Thinking]

My exact thought, “What’s the rush??? Duh. VisDuh!”

And before everyone jumps to defend Vista, that’s beside the point. A lot of the users don’t want / won’t buy Vista, so MuSoft has a problem even if Vista were the best OS ever written. IOW, even if it IS just a problem of perception, it’s still a problem.

[Billthedrill]

Got the Beta - roger on the IE8 frustration but otherwise it's fairly impressive, response-wise. I'll probably be changing over from Vista at home, which generally I do like, just for the speed increase. And upgrading to 64-bit so I can poke the memory slots full.

What has happened in the meantime, however, should be instructive to Microsoft marketeers - nearly everything I do is now under either Mint or Mepis Linuxes (the plural should probably be "Linuces" but I digress) running Open Office. Those two versions give me the codecs and other goodies without struggling with install packages, and that's where Microsoft used to beat Linux (I thought, anyway). No more. What would I give up if I stopped working Microsoft OS's altogether? A couple games and Turbotax, which seems stubbornly unwilling to run under the versions of Linux I'm using. That's it.

It won't happen because I have to support a lot of Microsoft users here at work, but should that ever change Win7 had better be ready to dance with the penguins.