They only have that dominance due to their history of dominance, and the resulting software developed for it. Dropping backwards compatibility would be the stupidest thing they could do ever, because at that point there’s little that makes their product a better choice than anything else on the market.
I’m not going with Vista until their beta testers (the rest of the consumer public) have had ample time to fully explore the OS and find all of its flaws and problems. And even then it’s going to be tough sell unless they get rid of that whole make-music-sound-crappier-and-video-look-“fuzzier” so-called protection scheme. I am not buying into an OS that deliberately makes some of the things I do on it worse because it assumes I’m a thief.
I got a new laptop last year, with a ‘come pick up a copy of Vista when it comes out’ receipt;I plan on getting it and tossing it in the closet until new programs won’t run on XP. I wonder if they will let me hold off on getting a copy until after they service pack their fuckups out…
I’ll upgrade when my office upgrades. Not a day before, and not a day after. I need to be in synch with them.
Sadly due to the quotes by ATI and Microsoft in his article, I believe he is right, and I am scared.
Nothing is going to save us from the price of hardware once this shit is underway.
The contents of that article are scary.
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On OSX there is none of this, and the way you can tell is that it appears on your desktop. The Microsoft guys just have a way of letting the interface get in your way for so many trivial reasons.
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And if it ran on a computer I assembled myself out of the parts that I chose, I’d be using OSX.
The thing is, some of the most glaring problems with Vista are ‘features’ that MS actually put into the OS deliberately, like their premium content protection system.
Even more sadly, the vast majority of the consumer public will have absolutely no idea why this is happening, and blame their monitor or their speakers.
And that coding couldn’t have been worse if I were typing with my toes.
I’m a Linux girl.
Hahahaha suckers.
Weird - I click on the link and get only one word “Test”. I google search, check out the cached page and there’s the article! Am I doing someting wrong/have something set wrong?
Heh, actually reading the thing I’m guessing it’s a test for a redirect to an html page. Nevermind the questions.
My sentiments exactly. I didn’t upgrade to XP (from 98SE) until about a month before SP2.
I will not upgrade to Vista. I have a desktop and a laptop running XP pro with no problems. These are mainly businass machines, and it will be roughly forever before my business applications will need to go to Vista. My main business application requires an older laptop running Win98.
For non business use, I have a MacBook with OSX Tiger.
I upgraded to XP SP1 when I upgraded. I would have done it earlier had I had the money and the extra hard drive, as I was running WinME at the time and that thing was a complete piece of crap.
I am not going to install Vista on my current machine and am not willing to purchase a new one to please Microsoft’s ever increasing need for more expensive hardware to run their crappy OS on.
I will continue running my Windows XP SP2 until I have no other option.
[Hijack] I heard that Windows XP does not really support Dual-core processors.
I have tried googling for it, but my Google-fu isn’t up to snuff.
Can somebody please confirm/deny this? [/Hijack]
Dell is selling dual-core machines with XP (I’m thinking of buying one) so what you heard isn’t true.
Windows XP Pro supports dual-core (and simply dual) processors, I’m not sure that home does. Neither supports 64-bit processors. There is a 64-bit version of XP, but driver support is lacking, and given that most folks who want 64-bit support will go to Vista, it’s not likely to get better.
I have Windows Vista on this laptop i’m using to post this. I have to say that I love it, not only is it very stable and fast it looks fantastic with some nice gadgets and twinkly things. The only downside I have encountered so far is the lack of drivers for certain things and compatability issues with some programs. I imagine that this will be sorted out given time as the retail release isn’t upon us yet.
I have only had it a couple of days so it’s a bit early to say anything for certain but i’m loving it so far, two thumbs up!
There’s not a chance in hell I’d change to Vista. Even normally enthusiastic Microsoft product users seem to have to work to find something good to say about it. I can’t see it as being anything I’d ever want to get involved with.
My preferred computer is a Mac, but my wife has a Windows XP computer that was made with components I researched and chose. If XP is not supported by some future killer application, I still doubt we’d change to Vista. I’d rather go all Mac, or install Ubuntu or some other kind of Linux on her computer. Our needs are pretty basic, so I don’t think a killer app would ever be an issue anyway.
I can’t see that we’ll need a new computer for a while in any case. I chose components for her computer that were best bang for the buck at the time and that would perform way beyond what we needed precisely so that it would last for a while. I think we’re looking at another 2–4 years before we need to do more than minor upgrades, and I’m betting that there will be even better alternatives to Vista by then.