Everyone do the Vista rant!!!
by init6 on Jan.31, 2007, under Windows
I’ve been waiting a LONG time for Vista to come out. Don’t be mistaken, not because I want to upgrade, but because I want to see how everyone responds to the final version. Maybe I’m just negative, but in a way it would be fun to see Microsoft stumble a bit (or fall flat on their faces).
I recently read an editorial by one of my favorite tech sites Hard|OCP. The editorial is pretty much just what I expected. it isn’t a full review, but a general “feeling” of the OS. here are a few quotes from the article:
“This is obviously not the position Microsoft wanted to be in leading up to launch day. I remember meeting with Microsoft last year at E3 where I had my backside filled with smoke for an hour by the Vista PR crew. The gist of our hour-long meeting was, “It’s going to be awesome!” I kept asking them specifically about DirectX 10 and what it would bring to the table, and they said that since no DX10 hardware was available at that time, they didn’t want to comment. But it would, without question, “be awesome!” They also didn’t have a lot of specifics about how Vista would specifically and tangibly be better than XP, but man oh man, it was going to be great.”
“Fast forward to July of 2006, and I’m sitting in a room (along with many other journalists) with Peter Moore, who is in charge of Microsoft’s new Games for Windows initiative. Several people ask him questions about Xbox live and other console questions, but finally I raise my hand in the air and say, “Mr. Moore, we’ve heard all this talk about how great Vista is going to be for gaming. Can you tell me specifically how gaming on Vista will be better than on XP?” He thanked me for my question, and then rattled off a PR-laden answer that is best summarized by “It’s going to be awesome!” He finished his answer with a claim resembling, “Just wait, you’ll see.””
“However, in the interest of science, I’ve been using Vista for the past six months and it’s left me completely underwhelmed. Rather than being a major step-forward in User Interface (UI) design, accessibility, and ease-of-use, it’s largely a step backward.”
For reference here are a few more articles about Vista:
Tom’s hardware Vista benchmarking against XP
