Microsoft wants you to buy Vista, now
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Rather than have 90% of businesses and IT folk wait to deploy Vista, Microsoft would rather have all of them do so now or sooner than later. That’s not going to happen, besides the cost to upgrade existing hardware, there are migration issues, hardware and software compatibility and the usual ills that come with a Microsoft operating system.
However, Vista is quite ready for home users and shouldn’t present too much of a problem on that front. Businesses, on the other hand have quite a few things to consider before rolling out a new operating system.
Eweek reports that many IT professionals are simply put off by Vista and the issues associated with migrating over to it, I can’t blame them one bit.
All this just amounts to what has been said since Vista released but Microsoft is still betting on the success and release of Vista SP1 some time next year. If that’s not enough, ITBusinessEdge reports on some tools provided by Microsoft to assist in migrating over to Vista.
As far as businesses are concerned, Vista is just a prettier and ever so slightly more secure version of XP, if more annoying, for most users the first thing that gets turned off is User Account Control (UAC) one of the touted security features of Vista.
Microsoft has also given the impression that Vista SP1 is supposed to improve performance but as a pre-release candidate has been circling around, shows that it does little to nothing except improve the reliability of Vista, mainly problems related to USB devices and hibernation.
If Vista is performing poorly on your system now, SP1 is not going to help you. While the company may not admit in so many words, many wish Vista could just be swept under a rug and forgotten. As one of my colleagues pointed out, why else would word be spreading about Windows 7 which is still two to three years out.
Vista is the ME of this generation, Windows 7 will likely be the XP of the next generation.
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November 24th, 2007
only thing vista made me do is switch to linux!!
November 26th, 2007
I’ve got Vista running on a “designed-for-vista” dual-core 2.4GHz acer machine at home (purchased July 2007, running Vista Home Premium, 2GB RAM, dual SATA drives), and it’s simply terrible. Running the build that the mfr shipped on the box, so drivers, etc should work, right?
Nope.
Network performance is terribly slow, graphics drivers are unstable, and I managed to blue-screen it the other day simply by plugging in my ipod.
I’m not sure what the poster’s talking about when he says “ready for home use”. Home users, who don’t have the backing of an IT department behind them, have an even worse time with the instabilities and just plain broken-ness of Vista.
-Drivers aren’t stable,
-big swaths of software isn’t compatible with IE7 and vista,
-and there aren’t any must-have features in Vista. Everything that MS has touted as an “advantage” in this version of Windows has proven to merely be a dysfunctional annoyance, or irrelevant to my useage.
I keep the system running Vista in the hope that windowsupdate will eventually have functional drivers on it for this system, but so far that’s proven to be a vain hope. I keep it on Vista just to keep a finger on the pulse of Vista’s state for my clients, but so far, it’s been a huge tech support headache, and a total dud.
IMHO, Vista is, frankly, the new Windows ME.
My advice to home users would be: if you’re itching for a like-new experience, you’re better off simply re-installing XP as a fresh build on your existing hardware. Upgrading to Vista offers almost nothing you want, and a whole lotta pain.
I’ve been very, very disappointed by Vista Home Premium.
November 26th, 2007
Actually, I’ve been getting my “new OS Jones” on by playing with the linux distro Ubuntu v.710 “Gutsy Gibbon”, which is quite nice, and very functional.
With compiz and beryl-style window decorations on, *this* is the desktop experience I was hoping for with Vista, but didn’t get.
March 10th, 2008
Makes sense! Nice article! I’ll Digg right away….