I was reading this forums news posts and followed up on one in particular, this can be found here:
Cutting Prices Won't Save Windows Vista
The article in question discuss's how MS has dropped prices in an effort to generate more sales of Vista with the author then proposing why Vista is already a doomed os.
I would be interested to see how forum users (and vista users) think on what the article has to say.
Personally I think that there are certain elements to the article which are true, such as driver support and the fact that having so many different varieties can lead to confusion.
As to Vista being a resource hog I don't agree. Vista uses memory differently and whilst it may look like vista is using say half a gig of ram it is fact 'holding' that half a gig in readiness to be used where-ever it may be needed.
The article also suggests that at 15GB, the disk space needed for the os, is excessive. In my opinion I'm surprised it isn't more... Many of todays games now run to 7GB if not more and thats just for a game. To have a os doing what Vista can do, I would say 15GB seemed about right.. It is true that in some areas the os could be trimmed a little but with todays average HDD being around 250GB I don't see why 15GB is considered large. Plus ihs thoughts about the GUI are just laughable
I'm sure with 'hindsight' there are many things that MS could have 'got right first time' but also many of us remember the fiasco that the XP release was and it took two major service packs to get that os running right.
I think many of this forums users will recognise the fact that it is 'in vogue' to bash Vista. I feel that the writer of the article seemed to have a particular axe to grind with MS and he would have bitched about any MS product not just Vista.
So here in the happy world of vista users we'll just carry on, using the product, enjoying the os and just be getting on with it!
Thoughts anyone?
I'm not the only one who has felt the need to write something after reading the offending article:
Friday Rant - More “Vista is doomed” nonesense | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com
Cutting Prices Won't Save Windows Vista
The article in question discuss's how MS has dropped prices in an effort to generate more sales of Vista with the author then proposing why Vista is already a doomed os.
I would be interested to see how forum users (and vista users) think on what the article has to say.
Personally I think that there are certain elements to the article which are true, such as driver support and the fact that having so many different varieties can lead to confusion.
As to Vista being a resource hog I don't agree. Vista uses memory differently and whilst it may look like vista is using say half a gig of ram it is fact 'holding' that half a gig in readiness to be used where-ever it may be needed.
The article also suggests that at 15GB, the disk space needed for the os, is excessive. In my opinion I'm surprised it isn't more... Many of todays games now run to 7GB if not more and thats just for a game. To have a os doing what Vista can do, I would say 15GB seemed about right.. It is true that in some areas the os could be trimmed a little but with todays average HDD being around 250GB I don't see why 15GB is considered large. Plus ihs thoughts about the GUI are just laughable
I'm sure with 'hindsight' there are many things that MS could have 'got right first time' but also many of us remember the fiasco that the XP release was and it took two major service packs to get that os running right.
I think many of this forums users will recognise the fact that it is 'in vogue' to bash Vista. I feel that the writer of the article seemed to have a particular axe to grind with MS and he would have bitched about any MS product not just Vista.
So here in the happy world of vista users we'll just carry on, using the product, enjoying the os and just be getting on with it!
Thoughts anyone?
I'm not the only one who has felt the need to write something after reading the offending article:
Friday Rant - More “Vista is doomed” nonesense | Hardware 2.0 | ZDNet.com