Re: Why Vista is considered a flop

"My computer runs just fine on Vista" does not mean Vista is a good
operating system.
I know a man who fell 100 feet and walked away from it--that does not mean
it is a good idea to jump off a hundred foot cliff.
Vista is a flop because it was not suitable for business use, and
businesses, not individual users, are Microsoft's main customers.
Vista was not adopted by businesses because it needs too much hardware, does
not network well, remains too slow in any disc access operation but the main
reason Vista flopped with businesses is because it came out at a time when
there was no need for businesses to upgrade and Vista offered no compelling
reason to upgrade.
Now Microsoft has Win 7 which, judging by the public release candidate, is
what Vista should have been but is not--something that may just be better
than XP. I am becoming a real fan of Win7 despite the sickening feeling that
I will really be paying for Vista SP3 when Win7 is finally released.
Unfortunately for Microsoft Win7 is coming out during the worst business
cycle since the 1930s and, again, offers absolutely nothing to a business
running a stable network with satisfactory business and productivity
software.
If you don't run a business that relies on a proprietary or business
specific program you may not realize that all of these are really databases
with a front end and that many of these database servers are specifically
written to XP and may not run on Vista. Even upgrades to many programs that
have come out since Vista was released may not run on Vista. If WIn7 does
not overcome that issue it is dead in the water for medium and small
businesses. The nifty XP emulator in Win7 is just too slow: why emulate XP
when you can still run the real thing and it doesn't cost you anything?

botox wrote:
> "My computer runs just fine on Vista" does not mean Vista is a good
> operating system.
> I know a man who fell 100 feet and walked away from it--that does not
> mean it is a good idea to jump off a hundred foot cliff.
> Vista is a flop because it was not suitable for business use, and
> businesses, not individual users, are Microsoft's main customers.
> Vista was not adopted by businesses because it needs too much hardware,
> does not network well, remains too slow in any disc access operation but
> the main reason Vista flopped with businesses is because it came out at
> a time when there was no need for businesses to upgrade and Vista
> offered no compelling reason to upgrade.

Business are using Vista. You just don't know it.

> Now Microsoft has Win 7 which, judging by the public release candidate,
> is what Vista should have been but is not--something that may just be
> better than XP.

Oh, it's better than XP, by a long shot.

> I am becoming a real fan of Win7 despite the sickening
> feeling that I will really be paying for Vista SP3 when Win7 is finally
> released.

It's six of that and half a dozen of the other.

> Unfortunately for Microsoft Win7 is coming out during the worst business
> cycle since the 1930s and, again, offers absolutely nothing to a
> business running a stable network with satisfactory business and
> productivity software.

You are wrong, as MS closes the door on XP just like MS did on Win 2k,
they will go.

> If you don't run a business that relies on a proprietary or business
> specific program you may not realize that all of these are really
> databases with a front end and that many of these database servers are
> specifically written to XP and may not run on Vista.

Like what database name one of them?

> Even upgrades to
> many programs that have come out since Vista was released may not run on
> Vista.

If they are not Vista compliant, they may not run, but a vast majority
of them do run on Vista, because software vendors have to come into
compliance or be left behind, which will hold true for Windows 7 as well.

> If WIn7 does not overcome that issue it is dead in the water for
> medium and small businesses. The nifty XP emulator in Win7 is just too
> slow: why emulate XP when you can still run the real thing and it
> doesn't cost you anything?

If you're broke don't go, but in the meantime, the world will turn and
keep moving forward.

The only thing that's going to happen is that MS will support Vista and
Windows 7.

"Planters" <> wrote in message
news:...
> botox wrote:
>> "My computer runs just fine on Vista" does not mean Vista is a good
>> operating system.
>> I know a man who fell 100 feet and walked away from it--that does not
>> mean it is a good idea to jump off a hundred foot cliff.
>> Vista is a flop because it was not suitable for business use, and
>> businesses, not individual users, are Microsoft's main customers.
>> Vista was not adopted by businesses because it needs too much hardware,
>> does not network well, remains too slow in any disc access operation but
>> the main reason Vista flopped with businesses is because it came out at a
>> time when there was no need for businesses to upgrade and Vista offered
>> no compelling reason to upgrade.
>
> Business are using Vista. You just don't know it.
>
>> Now Microsoft has Win 7 which, judging by the public release candidate,
>> is what Vista should have been but is not--something that may just be
>> better than XP.
>
> Oh, it's better than XP, by a long shot.
>
>> I am becoming a real fan of Win7 despite the sickening feeling that I
>> will really be paying for Vista SP3 when Win7 is finally released.
>
> It's six of that and half a dozen of the other.
>
>> Unfortunately for Microsoft Win7 is coming out during the worst business
>> cycle since the 1930s and, again, offers absolutely nothing to a business
>> running a stable network with satisfactory business and productivity
>> software.
>
> You are wrong, as MS closes the door on XP just like MS did on Win 2k,
> they will go.
>
>> If you don't run a business that relies on a proprietary or business
>> specific program you may not realize that all of these are really
>> databases with a front end and that many of these database servers are
>> specifically written to XP and may not run on Vista.
>
> Like what database name one of them?
>
>> Even upgrades to many programs that have come out since Vista was
>> released may not run on Vista.
>
> If they are not Vista compliant, they may not run, but a vast majority of
> them do run on Vista, because software vendors have to come into
> compliance or be left behind, which will hold true for Windows 7 as well.
>
>> If WIn7 does not overcome that issue it is dead in the water for medium
>> and small businesses. The nifty XP emulator in Win7 is just too slow: why
>> emulate XP when you can still run the real thing and it doesn't cost you
>> anything?
>
> If you're broke don't go, but in the meantime, the world will turn and
> keep moving forward.
>
> The only thing that's going to happen is that MS will support Vista and
> Windows 7.

Good to know and hoping you are right on both counts.

Harry.