Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Apr 2008 11:38 UTC
When Vista was released, and the first reviews started to trickle in, it became apparent that Vista was a massive release - not only in terms of money spent on it by Microsoft and the amount of promotion, but also the operating system itself. It was huge, and it felt as such too. Despite what many have been saying the past year, Vista is, in fact, much more than just XP with a new theme. Basically every framework and feature has been rewritten, lots of new ones have been added, and, according to some, the process of modularisation has started with Vista (and Server 2008). It may come as no surprise that all these changes resulted in a whole boatload of bugs and breakage, which led many people to conclude that Vista was simply not as "done" as it should have been when released. Steve Ballmer confirmed these sentiments in a speech at Microsoft's Most Valuable Professionals conference in Seattle.
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2005-07-07
Oddly enough, I run Debian (GNU / Linux) unstable, and that's perpetually a work in progress... However, Debian unstable happens to be fast, generally stable compared to other (even Linux) OSes, free as in speech, and free as in beer. I'd feel rather ticked if I payed for closed betaware that happened to be mislabelled. To each their own, but as far as PR goes, this and the short Vista lifecycle is making it seem like a real 'must skip' pile of 'technology'. IMHO, MS is in real trouble if they screw up the next Windows this bad...
Edited 2008-04-18 13:03 UTC