the XP market had just about reached saturation point as far as microsoft and
the computer manufacturers thought to themselves. Dell's turnover had dropped
to $60 billion for the year, so they brought mick dell back to improve
things, lol.
The bottom line is Microsoft developed a new OS to generate more money,
ESPECIALLY THROUGH GAMES, and the computer manufacturers are rubbing their
hands together as microsoft made 90% of the world's computers incapaple of
running Vista(except for the basic version), unless the hardware is heavily
modified and updated.
IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY MEG
Mick in Australia
"meg99az" wrote:
> I have my first new machine with Vista and Office 2007.
> They are usability disasters as far as I am concerned.
> It seeems as though an awful lot of development effort went into bells and
> whistles, most of it form over substance, while dismantling many of the most
> important usability and productivity features.
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> I know that new OSes and interfaces need time to sink in, but these new
> programs aren't just new - they are legitimately worse - dysfunctional for
> genuine productivity, a return to the stone ages. Seems like that on the
> next major OS release, we will be back to swapping floppies or using
> cassette recorders to load the OS.
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> I hate to complain without offering up thoughtful details and suggestions.
> But before I do, my question is this:
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> Does anyone from MS read these NG's or take them seriously? Does this all
> fall on deaf ears and arrogant disregard for customers, or is there someone
> at MS who takes this all seriously? If not, where else does one go to
> register thoughtful feedback?
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> If someone is listening, I just might be a regular participant here.
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> Here's something to chew on:
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> Remember back when - circa 1985 or thereabouts? IBM and MS were developing
> a radical new GUI OS: OS/2. And, IBM had come out with its next generation
> of PCs with a new incompatible bus architecture ("MCA" as I recall). In one
> fell swoop, IBM ticked off its entire customer base, by creating a new
> generation of machines that would force corporations to trash their entire
> old investments and retrain their entire staffs. MS took care of its
> customers, promising slow steady changes and backward compatibility, and the
> Wintel system won by a landslide, and the mighty IBM was out. Now, with MS
> concerned by Google and Linux and Apple nipping at its heels in various
> ways, the Vista / Office 2007 debut reminds me of the IBM - MCA - OS/2
> debacle. MS has never been a warm fuzzy patron of its customers, but this
> just seems to be total disregard for how millions of people world wide use
> and depend on their products. Unless Vista Service Packs fix the bugs, the
> profound lack of customization options, and the Windows Explorer and Office
> toolbars disasters, I will keep using XP for quite a long time. This might
> be just the incentive that someone needs to develop a more robust Linux that
> can support MS apps, because the sense I get is that enough people are
> sufficiently upset to be wishing for a good alternative.
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