Friday, December 7th 2007
Microsoft Watch Compiles Top Ten Reasons Why Vista Flopped
While Microsoft is putting their PR people to work showing the superiority of Vista to XP, Microsoft Watch is doing their part in educating the public on the other side of things. According to Microsoft Watch, you should not be listening to Microsoft, and know that Vista didn't too very well this year. Here are their reasons why, in order from most to least important. Please follow the source link for the reasons in greater detail.
Source:
Microsoft Watch
- Windows XP stayed in the market too long; everything was built for XP and not ready for Vista.
- No compelling reason to upgrade from XP
- User Interface changes made Vista seem overly complex
- Bad timing; most sales occur between Thanksgiving and Christmas of any given year
- Too many people were in charge of designing Vista
- People were not ready for Vista
- Advertising campaign was confusing, and stopped as abruptly as it started.
- No obvious link between Office 2007 and Windows Vista
- Legal issues with the US Department of Justice and the EU.
- Way too many versions.
70 Comments on Microsoft Watch Compiles Top Ten Reasons Why Vista Flopped
i move over very late in the life cycle of the latest Microsoft money making creation.. they all follow a pattern.. at first they are slower and lack driver support.. after a while the slow factor gets forgotten cos hardware gets better and they become the norm..
then things start to demand the latest operating system and lack support for the old one.. thats the time i move.. by then another new one is just around the corner.. he he
and the frist thing i do when i do move is try and make the new system as much like the old one as i can.. and yep my current XP looks very like my original win 95 did..
trog
-you provided no proof that the website is anti microsoft.
-you haven't provided any proof that article is based on random opinions.
Out of just what zek pointed out, here are the opinions...
No compelling reason to upgrade from XP Someone else can think differently.
User Interface changes made Vista seem overly complex Not to me
Too many people were in charge of designing Vista That's just what someone thinks, MS could think that's plenty
Advertising campaign was confusing Once again, someone can think that
No obvious link between Office 2007 and Windows Vista Office 2007 was designed for Vista
Way too many versions. Someone else can think differently on that. I think 4 is enough.
Home basic for basic systems
Home premium for faster systems
Business for businesses
Ultimate for all 3 in 1
According to Microsoft Watch, you should not be listening to Microsoft, and know that Vista didn't too very well this year <<-- Tell me that's not enough to be Anti-Microsoft??
No one said anything about "not listening to MS" was that thrown in there for fun?
Also, just because they point out flaws about Vista doesn't mean they are Anti-Microsoft.
If Vista did well I'm not seeing it. According to Market Share, things do not look to well for Vista this year.
And, your defense to just buy Ultimate is simply absurd :laugh:. With the purchase of laptops along with other PCs some people just don't have the option to pick and choose. In addition, there is no practical need for Ultimate if the PC is used mostly for basic home use. If you visit Windows Vista: Choose an Edition there is little to no real tangible difference found for average home use (excluding Enterprise). From what I can tell the differences include, but not limited to:
-Desktop Window Manager
-Transparency or translucency, window animation, Windows Flip 3D or any of the functions provided by the DWM
-Windows Display Driver Model
-built in games like Chess Titans, Mahjong Titans, Purble Place, and Inkball
-Windows Media Player and Windows Movie Maker
So STFU and suck on this:
Sure, I could detail out my personal Vista experiences, like I did in many other threads in detail. Overclocking/stability issues, performance penalties, pointless eye-candy, bloat, and similar (vs. Win XP/2k). Heck, I could even include charts and graphs for the attention-span impaired among us, but it would make no difference to him, because with him, this really is not about Vista to being with.
this all started out as me saying that it's an anti-ms site, and that jackass wanted to argue about it, then it got turned to vista.
Guess you jump to conclusions just like EastCoasthandle
Good job! :rolleyes:
like the XP logo was an upgrade from the classic windows logo ;)
It's a bias'ed Article.
Yeah, people hate Vista. Others like it.
OBVIOUSLY people like Microsoft Watch have to write this shit to convince people to NOT get Windows Vista.
Hell, I think I'll start my own anti-Linux site, and write some shit that will try to convince people to not use Linux.