I stated the accepted perception of Vista, even admitted
Deceptively put.
Ballmer stated Vista tried too much at once.
And, after the release of Windows 7.
Sounds like PR.
Doesn't sound like an admission of "it sucked" as you would
like to portray.
Vista runs fine on decent hardware.
Period.
Yes, it does now, after two SPs. The point was, the perception
that it sucked because of the early problems with the 'gold'
release. It doesn't matter that some of it was third-party
mfgs fault for not being ready for the driver model and
security changes, but ordinary people see it as a MS problem.
I keep saying that all of the experiences I had with the
initial releases of XP, used both at home, and deployed, as I
was working IT at that time at an engineering company of about
100 people, and 200 workstations, went very smooth, with few
problems. Most NT based drivers worked, and the useability and
stability (mostly the Win98 boxes) over the Win98 &
NTWorksation OS's we used was a huge plus.
A complete 180 to that was the release of Windows ME. I
upgraded, and within 1/2 hour, I knew ME wasn't were it was
at.
And Vista was similar. Breaking hardware drivers, programs
that weren't 'compatible', and UAC that wasn't very flexible.
It's all a perception.
I wrote a utility program for a company I worked for to
configure the hardware we mfg'd. There's a splash screen when
the program is opened. I hate splash screens myself....it's
just a waste of time. The screen just sits there, and the
program does nothing for 3 seconds. So I added a progress bar
to the splash screen. The screen still sits there for 3
seconds, doing nothing, but there's a nice progress bar that
counts down your 3 seconds of nothing until the program loads.
The perception is, that it takes the program 3 seconds to
load, but the reality is, it loads virtually instantaneously,
but I want you to look at the splash screen for three seconds
while I flash subliminal messages pushing our products on you
that are not visible to the conscience mind.
Its all perception.
I know many people still running it, no problem.
.....after 2 SPs.....
The ones whining bought a $450 laptop on sale,
True....
after saving
for 6 months, and got what they usually get... poor
quality.
(which is just taking another shot)....but for many that
aren't computer saavy, then just expect it o work. Like buying
a car, you just expect it to work.
