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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Vista on my desktop cames pre-installed. In Spanish language, even wanted to be English. After no chance to change the language, I face various problems. I've installed Ubuntu beta, all works.
What is the thing I wanted to point:
I've got two betas: one for free, one for money and enforced. May I get money back from an OEM system? Probably not. So, for my sake, I will always point that Windows is ugly, as much as did not give to me any reasoning to live with it. I write that lines from Linux and Firefox 3 (still beta), but I get better than any extra-options, like Vista and crappy IE.