Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Aug 2009 10:26 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Technologizer has an interesting article about why Windows Vista failed, and it provides 16 reasons why this is the case. A few of those reasons reveal a certain lack of understanding, but a more pressing issue is that while listing these reasons individually is interesting, Vista's failure in the marketplace can be explained in a much more compact fashion.
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RE[3]: Vista SP2 is pretty grown up
by darknexus on Thu 13th Aug 2009 01:48
in reply to "RE[2]: Vista SP2 is pretty grown up"
Member since:2008-07-15
And you find it acceptable that you had to upgrade to 12 gb of ram just so Vista would stop thrashing? Give me a break. Besides, the way Vista thrashed on most average computers, most people are stuck with it as they're not going to pay for 12gb of ram just for that piss poor excuse of an os to work the way it's supposed to. Still, at least win 7 did fix that much of it... too bad most people got stuck with Vista and now have to pay a rather steep upgrade price for Win 7 just to fix issues like that.
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2006-03-18
I do have to say, that with the stuff I do, I found Vista on my previous 4GB machine to be sometimes subject to extreme bouts of disk thrashing. But XP did the same thing under similar workloads. But x64 and 12GB of RAM have solved all my problems.