Stop spreading lies about the removed features
January 7, 2007You can say whatever you want about Windows Vista. I don’t care. Even though I like it, it’s still Windows and therefore has a whole slew of downsides that annoy me every day.
However, can we please, for the love of god, quit this whole nonsense about how supposedly millions and millions of features have been ripped out of Vista? The only three notable things that are not included in Vista but were promised to be in Longhorn were:
That’s it. That is all there is to it. I simply refuse to take any comment or article seriously that continue to spread lies about how many features were removed from Vista. Yes, it’s a resource hungry mammoth of an operating system, it has its quirks, it is expensive, and it comes in too many versions, but please stop spreading lies about the removed features.
Please. It annoys the crap out of me.
People cite the features removed because of Microsoft’s own rhetoric.
For literally years, Microsoft touted Vista (then Longhorn) as delivering on “three pillars:” Avalon, the new graphics framework, Indigo, the new web services foundation, and WinFS, the new file management system.
WinFS is dead and gone from the forefront, and it was the most revolutionary thing we were supposed to see. Indigo and Avalon were reworked and then backported to XP, making the very concept of Vista less appetizing (the argument being: if what we already run can do it, how great is it?). Incidentally, while Microsoft was screwing around, Linux and Mac gained similar — if not greater — technologies in these areas.
If anyone is carrying on, it’s well deserved: Microsoft made their own bed with this one. They promised three major things, and what we got is an incremental upgrade to XP that hasn’t really impressed the people who weren’t already suckling the Microsoft teat.
Comment by Adam S — January 8, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
I suggest you use Vista for a few weeks on end - exclusively. Then we’ll see if you still think that way.
I did not.
Comment by Administrator — January 8, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
I suggest you use Vista for a few weeks on end - exclusively.
Unfortunately, sales don’t work that way. You don’t sell by telling someone to use something and then love it, because if it doesn’t interest them, they won’t try it. You have to sell the steak with the sizzle. Good produces fail all the time because of bad marketing, lack of word of mouth, or general lack of interest.
I am quite sure that if I used Vista, I’d like it more than XP. Anything else would be plain old irresponsible by Microsoft. I’m sure it’s a step up. But I’m not compelled to use it. I don’t like the DRM foundation that is slowly infesting the OS, I don’t like the look and feel of Explorer, and I don’t have major needs that XP doesn’t meet adequately enough to force me to shell out $ for an upgrade.
This is why Microsoft has failed, not because the produce is bad, but because they overpromised, underdelivered, and still haven’t put together something that is packaged and presented in a way that is exciting.
Comment by Adam S — January 8, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
The three major features that I was looking forward to, removed — and also the UI is a bloated mess. Come on, it takes six clicks to change an IP address, compared to two in XP. Many other simple actions take far longer, or are no longer possible at all.
Vista is not an improvement, nor an evolution. It’s an abortion of good design, a travesty of usability, and a Rosie O’Donnell of bloat.
Comment by Ibod Catooga — August 16, 2007 @ 5:42 pm