Windows Vista – Promises Delivered?
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Several of us got together on Ventrilo just to chit chat. We ended up talking about Vista and XP, the differences, the expectations… and the opinions on the reality that is Vista.
A community member who goes by the name of SWAT started this off by making a comment that he feels as though he was ‘ripped off’ with Vista. I asked him how? I mean, didn’t Microsoft promise more “wow”? Didn’t they guarantee more eye candy? They delivered on that, right? They gave us AERO, Flip3D… so many little things like that. So how does he feel ripped off?
SWAT’s answer is simple. He says that while all of those things may be considered to be great new features in the eyes of Microsoft… but they are not in his. He doesn’t feel that Vista has lived up to the hype, and that it’s a “$500 copy of Poker”. He doesn’t necessarily want all those bells and whistles. He just wants a stable Operating System that will work. Unfortunately, at the time he had to buy a new laptop, he could ONLY get Vista on it, so he feels stuck with it.
Datalore, on the other hand, truly like Vista. He’s having no issues with it, and simply turns off the features he doesn’t want. But isn’t the point that you shouldn’t have to turn things off? Isn’t the point to make an Operating System that does what it needs to do… without so much getting in the way? Why the need to keep trying to outdo each other with gadgets, bells, whistles, and hoopla? Why can’t we get back to focusing on making a product that will run well, and do the things we need it to DO?
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