No, i think the reason is much more sinister than that, Thane. MS just
wants to control the "mind space" of people for another five years. They
can't do that with just a simple update to XP. They need something that
looks and feels different, so that people can have something to spend
time and energy tweaking and talking about (loving and/or hating). All
of the mags and websites will starting writing about it, Vista will sell
more hardware (hell, systems are now back up to $5000+ after being dirt
cheap for sometime), and the industry will move. Motion is more
important than the direction, in terms of staying alive. This is what
the entire industry wants from MS as its leader. Hence, MS is
delivering. We can either follow or jump ship. :)
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 11:21 AM 16/03/2007, FORC5 wrote:
running vista business on my server, vista is not ready for prime
time. backward compatibility sucks.
Vista says it will not allow bad code to run is why but in the same
sentence says when vista sp1 comes out it will change the whole
kernel, must be bad code. >:-}
That said has some nice features and also some very irritating ones.
I find the problems outweigh the advantages. Most customers don't
like it either. Why they had to change the entire interface and
rename all the control panel applets is beyond me. Arrogance, I would
guess. Or total lack of interest in their customers.
T
