Windows Vista to Get the Brutal Beating it Deserves?
Microsoft’s monumental OS bungle better known as Windows Vista may be well on it’s way to the chopping block a lot sooner than the software giant would have liked. According to reports, Windows 7 (previously codenamed Blackcomb Vienna) might being making an appearance as early as the second half of 2009. That may sound a bit scary, especially considering how long Microsoft spent in the lab concocting the putrid brew that is Vista. Perhaps Gates’ blunder lit a fire under them and the realization that Vista needs to be forgotten ASAP is just the accelerant that the MS code monkeys needed. In fact, it is even rumored that an extremely early "Milestone 1" (M1) version of Windows 7 has already shipped to key Microsoft partners. An M2 version is reportedly slated for April or May of 2008 and M3 will quickly follow in Q3. Additional roadmap details are unknown at this time. Of course none of this has been confirmed but if we were in Gates’ Bruno Maglis, we wouldn’t be able to can Vista fast enough.
try wine i almost faked blckbberyy dtm an shark modem for tethering lol
Then your vista box is improperly configured and you don’t know what your doing
kind of reminds me of windows ME, with its short shelf life. keep up the great reporting BG
I have enough network compatibility issues that cannot be resolved even by microsoft certified and licensed consultants themselves to give vista a thousand thumbs-down.
Not the reason Me got the boot, but does seem like a little bit of history repeating.
Always amazed to see the relatively few out there having issues. Vista works well for 95% of the users, but you always have the few who have home grown configurations that sometimes bogle the mind yet expect MSFT to work perfectly for them. We have over 1500 desktops/laptops running Vista at my firm – which has high end type users – and after some early shakeout – calls to the HelpDesk are down below what we experienced running the previous Windows release. BTW – we also have 50 Apple devices deployed around the country – HD calls on a relative basis are about the same as for Vista based users.
I’ve been using Vista Ultimate 64-bit exclusively for over 6 months now and have not had any major issues with it. I was using Vista Home Premium 32bit before that (a friend with TechNet gave me the ultimate 64-bit copy). The only program I really had issues with was Nero 6 (and that doesn’t really count, it flat out told me 6 wasn’t compatible and Nero gave a discount to upgrade to 7) I did have some issues with 64bit drivers for my USB wireless adapter, but that was Linksys’s fault, they hadn’t put out 64bit drivers yet (they may have now, i haven’t checked in a while, i’m using wired on my box now) I really think the people who sit and bash Vista are the ones that never really gave it a chance and didn’t take the time to configure it to their liking.