Comments on: 10 Reasons Why Vista Is A Disaster

By: TFP en de vrije stijl | eco.nomie.nl

TFP en de vrije stijl | eco.nomie.nl — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:33:24 +0000

[...] Maar dan die A, de TFP. Als je die nou eens zou kunnen verhogen, dan schiet het nog eens op met de groei. Op basis van die gedachte ontstond in de jaren ‘80 de endogene groeitheorie. Die A, zo stelden de aanhangers, stond voor ideeën en met nieuwe ideeën kunnen oude machines en mensen efficiënter werken. Maar zit de innovatie niet vaak juist in nieuwe machines, in plaats van ideeën? Toen ik nog groeitheorie doceerde, kende ik maar één goed voorbeeld voor een rechtstreekse TFP-verhoging: nieuwe software voor de computer (meestal). [...]

By: Microsoft: The “Bootleg Apple” Strategy and Why It Will Fail | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:21:12 +0000

[...] all versions of Vista supported the interface and there were many other problems with Vista. (See 10 Reasons Why Vista Is A Disaster for the full litany of [...]

By: Ricco

Ricco — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:20:35 +0000

Vista is a disaster. I am not a basher who loves OS-X. On the contrary, I use and have used OS-X and it has lots of flaws, which you discover when you drive it hard. Independent of that however, Vista is a disaster. The hours I have spent over two years trying o make Vista works lead me to this conclusion:
If you see a bargain computer for 400 bucks and a Mac for 1200, and you depend on the computer, buy the Mac.
The difference in money will be low, even if you make minimum wage because you will spend more time fixing the damn thing than a 100 hours. Everything is wrong.
Networking: (1) When resuming from sleep whether it finds my router is a chance game. (2) A software asks for a reboot, you think it will take 30 seconds, and shazam, it takes 15 minutes while you wait for a gazillion updates to be installed. (3) The windows genuine advantage tool, always nagging. (4) Even if the network is working fine, Vista does not want to connect to many sites, failing for random reasons. (5) The hour glass and the little circling ring. If I would have to add up the time I have wasted waiting… in fact I am always waiting, to launch IE, to launch explorer, to start office 2007, another total disaster, which does not even recognize its own documents…

Ok, had enough of writing this, yet, I still have Vista machines, because they do not make driver for XP for my laptop, and because I make a living out of .NET things. I really hope MS gets their act together once and for all.

By: Windows Vista: Microsoft's Misfortune, Apple's Opportunity | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:06:52 +0000

[...] interface, it offered very little that was compelling. Microsoft got Vista wrong in many ways (see 10 Reasons Why Vista Is A Disaster for an inventory), but many of those problems (software drivers, performance issues, etc.) will [...]

By: Touchscreen Wont Kill The Mouse, Microsoft | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Fri, 30 May 2008 22:10:07 +0000

[...] same has happened with Apple, only more severely. Microsoft was all over the place with Vista (see 10 Reasons Why Vista Is A Disaster), but the worst of it was that it had a naive belief that a better looking interface (the Aero [...]

By: The Linux Opportunity in the PC Market | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:50:40 +0000

[...] Vista has not been a success (see 10 Reasons Why Vista Is A Disaster). It never provoked much immediate growth in PC sales when it was released, as previous releases of [...]

By: Crimson

Crimson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:14:42 +0000

Vista is simply a plague. How can a supposedly serious company wants to sell an super slow OS crippled with slowdowners as DRM and crap like that…

M$ has a collusion with OEM hardware companies (Like Dell, HP, and all the other suckers…) to force the user into Vista but the resistance is strong. UAC is not a cure for bad and loosely couple IPC and bad design. M$ should have worked a lot fixing architecture mistakes instead of trying to sell with their supposedly sexy UI (which i HATE by the way…).

On top of that, you have the INFAMOUS Office 2007 with its all but open & standard DocX file format. M$ “low blow” approach is still raging again: New PCs are sold with Vista and Office 2007. Dumbass “mr. citizen” sends those nasty DocX files to business co-workers (which runs a mixture ou Office 2000, Office XP & Open Office) and VOILA! Receivers can’t open the closed source DocX super incompatible files! Solution (in M$ mind): Everybody pay for a new copy of Office 2007! Not me, NEVER!

Trying to resist? Calling M$ Tech Support? They’ll tell you “just download & install the compatibilty pack”. IT DOESN’T WORK. Yeah, you’re able to open the files but you loose page layout, graphics placement, tables, etc… There is at least a couple of free and easy solutions: Install OpenDOC in Office (Free) or just turn your back to lockware (Office) and download Open Office for free. But years of FUD tactics by M$ and the general “afraidness” of average Joe User will end up Joe refusing to try the 2 solutions and will prefer to pay 600$ for Office or waste a lot of time and continue to fight this Office MESS.

It would only take a couple of moves from government to stop all this MESS OF HORROR: That they standardize on OpenDOC file format and ban CRAPPY PROPRIETARY & NON-STANDARD file format like Macroshaft is pushing to use since too much time. If only countries could help their citizen to unlock themselves from those abuseware… You cannot count on Joe Somebody to read and understand the dirty game Macrozelot is playing.

By: Is Vista A Disaster? | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog)

Is Vista A Disaster? | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:58:23 +0000

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By: Marjan

Marjan — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:58:46 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. Windows Vista is a total failure. I’m still amazed how someone with so much money could make such a disaster in 5 years. Looks like Microsoft is using all the time and money to bribe politicians and computer vendors and getting close with RIAA/MPAA mafia instead of making their products better. Ah well, I guess it is time to upgrade back to Windows XP and then do another free upgrade to Linux.