Comments on: Why Microsoft must abandon Vista to save itself

With the release of "Extras," Microsoft has finally delivered something. Regardless, Vista is in trouble and Microsoft should abandon it before it's too late, says Don Reisinger.

[ilya_87]

What a waste of space this article is. Another attempt to score quick brownie points with the public by blasting a common target, without a single credible sentence or piece of evidence to be found. Vista works infinitely better than XP, and everyone that complains of driver issues should try and install those same drivers on a Mac or in Linux. They either don't exist or you have to pour through the code to get them to work. As far as it being a resource hog, the basic version without the aero glass interface (which reporters like yourself don't seem to like anyway) works on entry level laptops with as little as 512mb of ram.

Do everyone a favour and stop making big bold statements for shock value, as all you have done is wasted everyone's time.

[jsinc2]

What a total joke Vista is. Unfortunately, I did not read your review until AFTER I had purchased it. For everyone else who reads this, DO NOT BUY OR UPGRADE TO MS VISTA, it's simply horrible.

[scrippen]

"I own every different type of computer and use all the different operating
systems. I built my own custom PC and have installed Vista home premium. I
have been using it since its lanch and it has worked better than my Apple
macbook over that time." Well...No disrespect but you have just been lucky or something. I don't know what I would do without my "XP Pro." restore CD's and my McAfee Anti-Spy and Anti-Virus software that I could install in my sleep due to the lovely "WINDOWS REGISTRY." I started using windows in the 90's and OS X for about 4 years. A little over a year ago I began learning Linux. I just see no comparison between Microsoft and Macintosh other than they both start with "M." I can assure you that sooner or later your "REGISTRY" in Windows will become corrupt. Don't get me wrong because at the moment I am on my "WIN-BOX " and it's all good...lol

[webterractive]

I'm afraid that its too late for Microsoft to back out of this blunder. I have Windows Vista Home Premium on my 640m from DELL. Ths OS is very annoying. I have sent the machine for repair, but when I get it I'm installing Windows XP, its faster, reliable, and much more powerful with the given hardware that the notebook has.

Intel Core2Duo 1.73Ghz, 2GB 533Mhz, 80GB HDD, DVDRW, Wireless N, Bluetooth, MediaDirect, 10/100+Modem, IEEE1394+4USB 2.0 and Windows Vista Home Premium SP1.

[AlanBrowne]

My disappointment over VIsta comes down to: it offers nothing I need beyond what XP does quite well. So, I don't need Vista, thank you. And then MS announced the withdrawal of XP support from June 2008. I refuse to be forced into Vista, which by all accounts will make my 2.2 GHz dual core Intel, slower than it is now.

I have jumped ship to Mac. For those applications under XP that I "must have", I have purchased VMWare Fusion ($80), a virtualizer that allows running WinXP in parallel with Mac OS X Leopard. I can even drag and drop files between the two OS'.

I made the mistake of buying Mac Office:2008. Word crashes every 2 minutes. So I sent it back for refund and bought iWork at 1/3 the price.

MS have been arrogant and pretty stupid for a long time. So, I'm not sending them anymore money.

A case in point about MS' stupidity. I recently saw a banner add (in Adobe Flash) for a new dB product. I wanted to see what it was all about. I clicked on it. Then, to see the new product (a database), one had to download and install an animation plugin from MS (Silverlight).

So, the idiots in the lack-of-braintrust marketing department at MS were forcing me to install Silverlight in order to see an advert for their dB release. (Note that they had to use Adobe Flash to "suck me in").

Needless to say, I did not DL and install Silverfast and I did not see the advert on their new dB release. Using an advert for product A to force people to "adopt" new-"standard" B is the height of arrogance coupled to stupidity.

MS is braindead and it shows in their buggy software (Office for Mac:2008, Vista), their clumsy attempt at forcing Silverfast on people (there are enough damned animation plugins, thank you, and Adobe do it fine with Flash).

I will strive to avoid Microsoft products, free or otherwise, personal and business. It's become a penalty beyond its former status as a mere tax. Considering that I have bought MS products since about 1985, that is ending 20+ years of business for MS.

What is amusing is that they will not wake up to reality.

Once my transition to Mac is complete (another few months) my WinTel box will either be given away (my son is panting) or will be setup as a Linux server to the Mac.

[edbarcik44]

Right On!!! I agree 110%, got a Dell with Vista and upgraded to 4gigs, no problems with Vista, rock solid. Bought a Sony laptop with Vista, too 15 minutes to boot, upgraded to 4 gigs, no problem, fast, rock solid. I agree with everything you said about junk computers and CPUs.

[szilagyic]

Excellent points about the failures of Windows Vista and high success of Mac and Linux. In my opinion, this should be a learning experience for Windows users, and hopefully a wakeup call to abandon Windows completely. It CAN be done. I personally own my own business, and have used Red Hat Linux for over 8 years. I recently migrated from Windows XP to Fedora Linux 10, and it's the best move I have ever made. Now I can actually use my computer rather than troubleshooting it. No more woes of Windows ... like COST, maintenance, and compatibility. I even wrote my own article on my reasons for choosing Linux:

<a href="http://members.apex-internet.com/sa/windowslinux">http://members.apex-internet.com/sa/windowslinux</a>