longhorn, will you get it?

[kakariko81280]

I tried Windows XP a little while ago when a new PC was delivered to work. Perhaps there was something wrong with the OEM setup, but the timing of events seemed a little off. The clearest example was the start menu; I'd click on it, the menu would appear and then the button would change to be pressed.

I couldn't concentrate because I was permanently reminded that I wasn't working with the tools, just pictures of them. Also more and more warnings were displayed telling me that I didn't need to be looking in this or that folder but if I was sure I could click here.

I am remided of the "If software companies were airlines" spoof I read some time ago, except in that one Apple was the company that told you "You don't want to know, you don't need to know. Now sit down and watch the movie." I guess times have changed.

I don't expect any of that to get better so I will not pay for it. I dread having to deal with it professionally.

[Anonymous1c4]

It depends...if vista is more stable then XP than maybe...but i doubt it.

[chopin1810]

There's no way I'm "upgrading". I can see why they would kill backward compatibility, as that's something that has blocked stability and speed in the Windows operating system for years, but I can just see Vista being the beginning of the end for Microsoft. Just imagine all the activation type stuff they're gonna have to take away my privacy and freedom. This is problem with capital based software development: there is no guarentee that the software will get better simply because that factor all depends on cash flow and not product superiority.

[nealro]

but I can't help but see this as another excuse to push back new features that they could have (and should have) finished working on several years ago. The way I see it is Microsoft has dragged their feet with this "new Windows" to the point where people are looking elsewhere, so they're releasing an unfinished project in order to try and cement their stranglehold on the market again.

Well look at it from M$ prospective - they've been so busy with writing security patches and bugfixes for all their products, they couldn't possibly have the time to build a quality product!

[Cabhan]

I'll not be getting it for the simple reason that I have no need for it. I removed Windows (again) recently, because I realized I hadn't booted into it since installing it again. Why waste my money when I don't actually use it for anything?

And besides, I'm sure Wine and Cedega will come out with Longhorn support for applications a bit after, so I won't even lose out on gaming or anything.

[a thing]

Why would I?

[jnev]

vista is going to suck. i tried it out a few weeks back (it was at this tech fair, at the microsoft booth no less), and it SUCKED. looked exactly like xp with a new skin. i tried out some of the so-called "new" features (that have been ripped off linux and mac) and none of them worked right and it was overall slow as hell. i read an article today about the minimum requirements. check this out:

64bit cpu
2gb ram
>=128mb pci-e
monitor with some copy-protection built-in
sata hard drive with ncq

like wow... my computer only fullfills one of those requirements. though i can see vista as being a good excuse to get a new computer, and then not even install it

[techieMoe]

Locked this thread because it's become a magnet for people to say "Microsoft/Vista/Windows Sucks". That and I'm personally tired of looking at it.