Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Feb 2007 15:51 UTC
Forbes takes a look at Vista, and writes: "More than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: 'The Wow Starts Now', and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh. But as with every previous version, there's no wow here, not even in ironic quotes. Vista is at best mildly annoying and at worst makes you want to rush to Redmond, Wash. and rip somebody's liver out." They also look at Office 2007.
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2005-08-19
If you aren't expecting much you will likely be just fine. If you are expecting Microsoft to "finally get it right, like Apple" then you *will* be disappointed.
It's not that the tech is bad, it's just clear (from end to end) that the OS was kicked out the door with no serious time infront of a usability team that took their job seriously. [...]
[...] That being said, if you are NOT a gamer, I would strongly suggest you take a look at Linux (OpenSUSE & Ubuntu) and then Mac (in that order).
If you're talking about usability teams (i.e., ease of use for everyone) why do you suggest Linux? It's a system for experts and I haven't yet succeeded with making any of my (non-technical) friends happy with it. OS X is much better in this regard.