Star Dvorak: Vista's 11 Pillars of Failure
Linked by David Adams on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 16:31 UTC, submitted by CIozzio
Windows Everyone's been talking for what feels like an eternity about Vista being a major blunder, and everyone has their theories as to why it happened. So why would John C. Dvorak be any different? He's got 11 reasons why the OS was destined to flop.
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RE: Vista and Me
by boofar on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 22:41 UTC in reply to "Vista and Me"
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I use GUI's in Linux, but I also terminal into my boxes. It's nice to be missing nothing of the power of the OS when I access it that way. Modularity, baby! Maybe Windows 7 will rediscover this principle.

I believe MS have already discovered this. I had the pleasure of installing windows 2008 the other day. There you can actually select not to install a GUI at all. Combine this with PowerShell, and you're suddenly well on your way to having a real operating system.

I'm a linux guy, and the "pleasure of installing" part was ironic, but still I think MS is moving in the right direction wit this.

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