According to a notation tucked into the DOJ's joint statement with Microsoft regarding continued compliance with various agreed-upon standards and remedies, Microsoft expects Service Pack 1 for Vista to be in beta by the end of the year. In addition, a Microsoft security executive released data Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.
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Member since:2006-09-01
Vista has problems, but most of them aren't with the OS.
Five years of hype didn't helped it. After a while people just get tired of hearing about something they can't buy.
Following a great act like XP hasn't helped either. XP is a very competent operating system, and has been honed for years. This isn't ME to XP or NT to 2000. This is 2000 to XP. There really wasn't any compelling reason to switch from 2000 to XP at first either. I can remember some one writing off XP when it first came out as 2000 with an ugly default theme.
A lot of people are taking this opportunity to really push alternative operating systems. And why not? The alternative are competent, so why not see if they can hook a few people. I'm working on my laptop which has Ubuntu on it right now.
And finally it's really hard to get people excited about kernel enhancements. I get excited, but I'm weird.
I'm running Vista as my MS OS right now, and it has grown on me since I first installed it. There are still things that I don't like about it, it's heavy, but for the most part it's a good evolution of the Windows line.
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2005-07-06
That hits the nail on the head.
Reviews are telling people not to touch Vista until at least SP1, then Microsoft gets SP1 rushed out the door.
Increased sales of Vista after SP1 ?
I think not. There is more apathy towards Vista than there has been for any operating system. Even OS/2 had people salivating over new releases. Windows users were like this up to XP, now, they just do not care.