I still to this day, more than a year into Vista’s life, believe that Windows XP was the peak of Microsoft Windows. It’s stable, easy to use, and has great support, so why then did a company like Microsoft build a product such as Vista? Not many people know this, but Vista is actually a lot more secure than XP, in fact it’s probably the most secure OS on the market, including OSX! In this sense maybe Microsoft did make the right decision, XP was not secure, with over 90% of the computer market using Windows XP it was easy to see why.
So in Microsoft’s point of view, they took a step backward in order to take two steps forward. They had to rebuild Windows from the ground up, starting with a new file system. So they destroyed compatibility in Order to make Vista more secure. So in this sense Windows 7 or ‘Vienna’ should be the next Windows 98, it should have the security of Vista, with better compatibility now that the world has had chance to catch up with the new prospect of Windows.
Or at least that’s what I thought before I saw the latest version of Vienna running on a Dell laptop. They were demonstrating the new features of Windows 7, including multi-touch. They obviously haven’t learned from their mistakes with Windows Vista. I’ll give you an example, remember when all you needed to run XP smoothly was integrated graphics, the only reason you would buy a computer with a separate graphics card was to run games. Then along came Vista, sure Vista looks nice when your running Aero but have you seen the Basic theme! I’m going to say if a computer running Vista did not have at least an 8400, I wouldn’t want to use it. Vienna does not look any different, I wonder how many people who own a brand new vista computer, happen to have multi-touch screens on them!
I could be wrong in saying this, but I think that Windows Vienna will be just as big of a disappointment as Vista. As the title of this article suggests, if there isn’t a dramatic change in Vienna, I’m buying a Mac.
Filed under: Desktops, Gadgets/Handhelds, Laptops, Software/OS
I think that Windows 7 (Vienna) will be a whole lot more secure and more reliable then Vista SP.1
However, with this Vienna update, compatibility at the moment will be down and security will go WAY up; but, knowing how large Windows is in the enterprise, Windows 7’s compatibility should eventually be just as high as XP was or even higher. Thus, lowering security greatly. We cant see this affect in current Vista because current vista is a virus in itself being such a horrible OS that Microsoft released!!!! Nothing but bugs and error and annoyances in every program or feature you use in it!!!
I have built my own PC recently, I want it to run Vista, but its running Ubuntu because of Vista’s current state. I will run Windows 7 on it when it is released.
I think microsoft should cave in and go *nix and give up on making there own code in the long run it would probably be cheaper for them seeing how long established the *nix community is. Windows has a lot of catch up to do before they get crushed under the wheels of *nix and Apple
the problem is, you’ll have to wait for yet another 2 yrs before you really put what you said into practice.
I’ve been using MS since DOS 1.1. I’ve known that Mac had the best operating system since I saw my first Lisa. I have a Vista notebook and wish I had bought a MAcbook. Everyone complained about Win98 – it worked fine for me. I skipped ME, but XP was clearly the best MS OS ever. MS should imitate Ubuntu Gnome – give users a minimal stripped down quick OS. I also run Ubuntu and except for some key, for me, Widows programs would just run linux only. MS will keep corporate computing for a while but they are not invincible.