One thing for the original topic. Firstly I have had no problems with Vista at all, runs far better for me than any OS I've used thus far but, OS choice is a rather personal thing. I mmay also be biased because every problem I've seen first hand with vista was the user doing something stupid or messing with things they don't understand. But, that's a seperate point.
One of the things work pointing out is that MS uses a particularly odd tactic for building OS. XP for example, is oft noted as the second finished OS they produced. DOS being the first. 95, 98 and 2000 (plus variants) were all building up to XP and were essentially just early versions of it. Vista would be the first progression of the next OS, Windows7 is likely just a refinement of Vistas features that they experiented with in Vista.
This method builds the company more money which of course lets them hire larger teams to work on their products. But, for the users it means you don't want to get each release nessesarily, while I have had zero issues with vista (save disabling UAC of course) it is version one of the next OS and is the experimental sandbox for the new OS. W7 should refine the features and add a few new ideas they are working on. Eventually we will have the stable version, whatever it's name and everyone will repeat the whole song and dance they did with XP and vista, whining away while talking about how upgrading is a bad idea. By this point, XP will be in our memory and used on old machines for low budget clients the same way 2000 is now.
One of the things work pointing out is that MS uses a particularly odd tactic for building OS. XP for example, is oft noted as the second finished OS they produced. DOS being the first. 95, 98 and 2000 (plus variants) were all building up to XP and were essentially just early versions of it. Vista would be the first progression of the next OS, Windows7 is likely just a refinement of Vistas features that they experiented with in Vista.
This method builds the company more money which of course lets them hire larger teams to work on their products. But, for the users it means you don't want to get each release nessesarily, while I have had zero issues with vista (save disabling UAC of course) it is version one of the next OS and is the experimental sandbox for the new OS. W7 should refine the features and add a few new ideas they are working on. Eventually we will have the stable version, whatever it's name and everyone will repeat the whole song and dance they did with XP and vista, whining away while talking about how upgrading is a bad idea. By this point, XP will be in our memory and used on old machines for low budget clients the same way 2000 is now.
