Quote:The question now isn't "Is Vista Dead?" It is. The real question is: Can Microsoft get Windows 7 out in time to save its desktop domination? I think Microsoft "could" pull it off. Here's how.

Vista is dead.

That's not what Bill Gates said at a seminar on corporate philanthropy in Miami on April 4, but it might as well have been. What Gates actually said, according to the Reuters report, is that he expects that the next desktop version of Windows, Windows 7, would be released "sometime in the next year or so."

Goodbye Vista. It has not been fun knowing you.

I predicted that Microsoft was giving up on Vista in January. It seems I was right. Microsoft's own top brass had hated Vista when it first came out, why should they expect anyone else to like it?

Vista SP1 has proven to be a painful upgrade and its performance still lags behind XP SP2 and, the still unreleased XP SP3. Worse still, from a Microsoft executive's viewpoint, Windows is actually losing desktop market share to Mac OS X and Linux. Microsoft never loses desktop market share. But with Vista Microsoft is finally losing customers.

I think Microsoft saw the handwriting on the wall early on. The company started playing up Windows 7 as early as July 2007. Now, Microsoft's business plan is always to get its customers to upgrade to the next version. It's how they make their billions. But, in this case, Vista was barely out the door.

Can Microsoft actually make a Windows 7 that can ship by 2009 that will win customers? Vista was infamous for its blown deadlines. Windows 7 must not only replace the failed Vista, it has to convince Microsoft's customers that Windows 7 will really be better than XP.

That isn't going to be easy. I find it more than a little telling that Microsoft has given XP Home a new lease on life for UMPC (Ultra Mobile PCs). Still. I think Microsoft has one card up its sleeve that just might keep its customers happy and make it out in 2009: Server 2008 Workstation.

O_O damn...

oh yeah,
i saw it first here
http://www.psp-hacks.com/forums/viewtopi...141111&p=1

and i looked for another source...

http://practical-tech.com/operating-syst...-on-vista/

i really like vista


i don't know why every one hates it

o yeah
i love the vista flaming lol

(This post was last modified: 27/04/2008 11:14 AM by u_c_taker.)

You know, the reason why Vista fails so hard is that it has 20 years of legacy code running under the hood. This plus all the new features and whatnot weigh it down like crazy. They need to do what Apple did, that is, start fresh with an entirely new OS. Ditch the old code (from pre-XP) that weighs it down in favor of an entirely rewritten OS that runs more efficiently.

gates is a shrewd business man he isn't gonna spent billions of dollars re writing an os from scratch
and what happens to the programs written for the legacy code i.e. backward compatability
and re writing an os would take time and since ms wants to get this product out sooner rather than later re-writing the os wouldnt seem a viable option atleast for the next version of windows

Lets not quote threads from psp-hacks, use there source.


Murrr Vista murr