Added Note: As I was on my way home from work the day of my last post, I stopped at a fast food drive-through. The little electronic screen that displays my order was made by a company called "Delphi".
That got me wondering; Would Borland consider suing this company for using that name, or would the company sue Borland for giving one of their products that name?
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Well I would normally tend to agree with you -- but look at the circumstances. Still, it's a touchy issue and I'd like to see how it finally shakes out. The butter was marketed as non-sizzling thus no problem with getting splashed with hot butter leading to many people to conclude "Fiat Croma, doesn't sizzle" which hurt sales rather badly at the time : There's a demarcation issue here.
Facebook Like. Twitter Tweet. Be a part of the DaniWeb community. The downside is that during the first day or two, everything slows down while Vista indexes your computer. Best to leave it on overnight or over a weekend while you're away. User Account Control is useful for some people. I have to admit that I've turned this off but UAC—the thing that pops up and asks you for your password whenever you do something on the system level—is useful in theory for many people, especially those who share a family computer.
In practice, it's a bit annoying in that it pops up for mundane things that shouldn't really need system-level clearance. It's a step in the right direction; however, if you want to disable UAC for certain programs, see here. Drivers support isn't as bad as it's made out to be. Although "Man gets Windows Vista to work with printer" may be an actual non-Onion headline, the root cause of his original woes was that the man installed a Windows XP printer driver instead of the correct Vista one.
But there is a smaller percentage of users who-no matter how old or new their peripheral is-can't get it to work with Windows Vista. The blame for this lies on peripheral manufacturers who either can't or won't update their drivers to support the new OS.
There's not much you or Microsoft can do here, but it's rarer than you'd think from reading the internet. It's not any buggier than Windows XP. This is a bit of a corollary to 1, but out of the many, many Vista users we've seen, they almost all agree that the only times Vista has crashed or blue-screened on them was when they were doing something they usually don't do.
In a year's worth of daily use, we think the OS has probably only crashed once, if that. Vista is not slow if you have enough RAM. Modern operating systems get fatter because they DO more stuff for you under the hood, such as optimizing your memory for the applications you run often so they load faster.
We're not saying that Vista doesn't have its faults or that Windows 7 won't be better, we're saying that Vista is just not as bad as people are making it out to be. If you're on XP and you're afraid to upgrade, don't be. It's no worse than Windows XP if you pay attention to the stuff I mentioned above. As long as you've got a reasonably decent machine-and if you're reading Giz it's likely that you do-you're pretty safe in upgrading. Things aren't where they used to be. Holy shit. This one is the worst.
Intel expects this market to explode in the years ahead. For more on netbooks and nettops, see this fact sheet and this presentation -- both are PDFs from Intel. For years Microsoft has been criticized by developers and IT professionals for "software bloat" -- adding so many changes and features to its programs that the code gets huge and unwieldy. However, this never seemed to have enough of an effect to impact software sales. With Windows Vista, software bloat appears to have finally caught up with Microsoft.
Vista has over 50 million lines of code. XP had 35 million when it was released, and since then it has grown to about 40 million. This software bloat has had the effect of slowing down Windows Vista, especially when it's running on anything but the latest and fastest hardware.
Even then, the latest version of Windows XP soundly outperforms the latest version of Microsoft Vista. No one wants to use a new computer that is slower than their old one. It's easy to forget that when Microsoft launched Windows XP it was actually trying to change its OS business model to move away from shrink-wrapped software and convert customers to software subscribers. That's why it abandoned the naming convention of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows , and instead chose Windows XP.
The XP stood for "experience" and was part of Microsoft's. NET Web services strategy at the time. The master plan was to get users and businesses to pay a yearly subscription fee for the Windows experience -- XP would essentially be the on-going product name but would include all software upgrades and updates, as long as you paid for your subscription. Of course, it would disable Windows on your PC if you didn't pay. That's why product activation was coupled with Windows XP.
Microsoft released Windows XP and Office XP simultaneously in and both included product activation and the plan to eventually migrate to subscription products. However, by the end of Microsoft had already abandoned the subscription concept with Office , and quickly returned to the shrink-wrapped business model and the old product development model with both products. The idea of doing incremental releases and upgrades of its software -- rather than a major shrink-wrapped release every years -- was a good concept.
Microsoft just couldn't figure out how to make the business model work, but instead of figuring out how to get it right, it took the easy route and went back to an old model that was simply not very well suited to the economic and technical realities of today's IT world. One of the big reasons that Windows XP caught on was because it had the hardware, software, and driver compatibility of the Windows 9x line plus the stability and industrial strength of the Windows NT line.
The compatibility issue was huge. Having a single, highly-compatible Windows platform simplified the computing experience for users, IT departments, and software and hardware vendors.
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