..when pigs sprout wings and fly, most likely:
Vista has the reputation of being buggy, bloated and intrusive. With Windows 7, Microsoft needs to release an operating system that specifically addresses those issues, and then some.
Yeah, good luck with that one, Windows users. I know everyone's going to have issues with their respective operating systems when they're first rolled out, but as far as I can tell it seems to be worse with Microsoft than with anyone else. Honestly, I am not what one would derisively call a Mac fanboy — even though I use Macs both at home and at work and am quite uninterested in going back to Windows — but it seems to me that Apple has the much more stable OS than Microsoft, even with OS X Leopard. I use Leopard at work and the only problems I've had with it are with not-so-compatible versions of earlier software. Even with those little idiosyncrasies, it still works; I just have to do things a little differently than I did before. Microsoft was doing just fine with Windows XP, to be honest, at least in my opinion. I used XP at home for literally years and never had any problems with it or any add-on software like Firefox or MS Works. And I am not really sure how the folks in Redmond thought they could improve on it. To be fair, Dwight Silverman did say, "...on a modern machine with decent hardware, I think Vista’s a pretty nice OS," but I still think it's worth asking why Vista has gotten the reputation it's gotten — and if Microsoft will ever again get as close to being perfect as they did with XP. Considering what I've heard from certain people about MS conditioning people to accept less than the best, and the rep MS has gotten for letting customers in effect be the beta testers on what was supposed to be a finished, market-ready product, I'm thinking the answer is a big fat NO. I guess we'll find out, though...
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