Why does it matter how Vista sells?
It's a piece of software, it's not a rapist after your children. You don't
like it? Don't use it. Some people take a piece of software so seriously
around here.
It's almost as bad as the Mac vs. PC debates. Put this much effort into
something that actually matters people, not software.
I like Vista a lot, it didn't sell well, well crap I guess I better take it back.
No, MS is a rapist after my wallet. Im not using it and would love to continue not using it. I would have loved to continued not using XP. Thats not the point.
The point is the consumer public not accepting a product which is incomplete, not what it promises and crap, and the manufacturer trying to place blame anywhere else but themselves.
If you went out and bought a car that boasted a 5 star safety rating because you wanted that to protect you children, then got in an accident where the damage sustained was much higher than it should have been, would you accept excuses from the manufacturer?
Why do people accept excuses from MS? MS touts its "content rich experiance", yet all it is are faster and more clever ways to make your system accesible to advertising, in the process creating greater security risks? Why is this acceptable?
MS had to 'cheat' to prevent Vista from being slower than XP, and only just barely suceeded. Why is that acceptable?
MS is forcing new standards on the hardware industry. Thats like a tire manufacturer telling an auto manufacturer "These are the tires we are going to provide, in order for the tire to funtion optimally, your car must wiegh no more than this, have a wieght distribution of that, a springrate thus etc."
That Vista is nothing more than XP SP3.x is of no concern. That its actually worse than XP is of no concern. That MS is placing blame rather than accepting it, as they usually do, is.
I dont want vista, just I didnt want XP, but like XP, when MS drops support for XP, I will have little choice if I wish to maintain compatability.
Well, MS agent just went to your home, put a gun behind your head and force you to buy your software. I guess that is what happen seeing how you talk about it...
By the way...
MS is forcing new standards on the hardware industry. Thats like a tire manufacturer telling an auto manufacturer "These are the tires we are going to provide, in order for the tire to funtion optimally, your car must wiegh no more than this, have a wieght distribution of that, a springrate thus etc."
Actually, it is like this. there is load rating, as well as speed rating for tire. That means that you cannot put normal tires on sport car that goes fast.
You are NOT forced to use any pieces of software available. And there is Linux. And there is lots of apps that will do for casual users. It is not as easy to install and as polished as Windows, but when installed, it can be uses as easily as windows for normal personnal day to day operation. There is too some game written for Linux. Or just get a MAC. It will do too..
But if YOU decide to play game written for Windows, or use apps written for Windows, the this is YOUR own choice. It is not because the MAJORITY use it that you are FORCED to use it. Sure enough, games for windows are better and more are available but is it MS fault? Is it rather because more people get Windows, that create good market for developper in order to put out decent piece of software or better game? You think that game studio will have people working for them for free?
My mother in-law (in her 80's) doesn't understand why her fairly new HP DeskJet does not work with her new Compaq Vista notebook (gift form her daughter... clueless also). She doesn’t want to hear drivers are not out yet or understands what a driver is..
This is because HP decided not to write drivers for it. You should rather blame HP, because my epson works with Vista. But HP being a private company, they can do whatever they want. Just like Microsoft.
I'm using Windows because I decided to. I use Open Office because I feel that I don't need the whole MS office suite. I will eventually get Vista, because of dual core support and memory management, as well as videocard accelerated desktop make my system faster and snappier. My printer does work, but not the VIVO on my ATI video card. ATI did not yet make the driver for it. Not MS fault to me.
While your individual mind can hate MS for their job, you simply forget people with limited knowledge of computer that enjoy computer because MS make it easy for them.
You want to change thing? just go out, hire people, make your own OS and sell it. If it is good enoughthen you may just become the next MS.For what it is worth...MS is a MONOPOLY and because that is the fact at hand consumers choices are limited in the PC market. They can choose between the black Dell Vista system or the Gateway Vista system. More of the same when it comes to standards. Engineers and officials agree on standards that will be used on electronic goods. MS does several things that damage those standards. The following is quoted from a site that I visit now and again and says it better than I ever could.
Standards as a means of sabotage
Then there are the really nasty deviations from global standards that Microsoft has deliberately introduced to sabotage interoperability and freedom of choice. Take HTML and Java for example. The Frontpage web editor, the IIS webserver and the various backend E-commerce products all generate proprietary extensions to HTML and scripting languages that only Internet Explorer on Windows will handle correctly, and renders all other web browsers and platforms unusable. The same goes for Java support: Microsoft Java does not follow the Java specifications. Again this means that applets in this particular dialect can only be executed by Microsoft's own Java engine on Windows. Yet Microsoft used the Java label for products that were incompatible with the Java standard. This caused Sun to file suit. Microsoft then dropped the global Java standard entirely and now only supports their own Java dialect. The net result of this whole procedure is that Microsoft web server products and development tools generate code that needs Windows, Internet Explorer and the Microsoft Java engine at the user end in order to work properly.
So the use of a simple consumer-level HTML editor like Frontpage can be the start of complete vendor-dependence. Frontpage is mainly intended for consumer use, and at the professional end of the scale we have IIS, ASP, scripting and other dynamic technologies, and the backend and development tools to create them. The World Wide Web becomes flooded with non-compliant HTML and JavaScript code that generates error messages, or that works incorrectly or not at all, with Netscape Navigator or other non-Microsoft browsers. Only with Internet Explorer on Windows these websites can be displayed correctly. Recent versions of Frontpage, IIS and the assorted E-commerce solutions increasingly use this proprietary scripting code for menus and navigation. This makes correct support of these dialects (read: the use of IE on Windows) essential to the usability of a website.
And this is not a transient problem, because competing browser manufacturers can never keep up. Shortly after Microsoft releases an updated version of Frontpage, IIS or other backend or development tools, older browsers will begin to show more and more error messages, and users will be urged to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer. Some Microsoft web server products even use Active-X. That means that if you access a website that uses Active-X (another Microsoft 'standard'), the server sends commands to your browser which then makes system calls directly into your Windows operating system code. These websites can only be fully and correctly accessed and displayed by clients running MS-Windows. Non-Wintel systems (e.g. workstations running Unix) are excluded from those web-based services.
Also, in 2003 Microsoft participated in the Web Services workgroup of the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium, a committee that maintains and guards the global web standards that we all use) with hopes of getting some Microsoft proprietary technology ratified as a global standard. Since the W3C was unwilling to do this (read: to promote technology to be used on a royalty basis) the Microsoft representatives picked up their marbles and left, stating that the purposes of the W3C did not match those of Microsoft. Shortly thereafter Microsoft said that no major new versions of Internet Explorer as a separate product are to be expected,, and announced that future major releases of IE will be an integrated part of future (post-XP) Windows versions. Given the dependencies they've created, this means that in order to access information on a global network, we'll need to buy the latest version of Microsoft Windows.
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