Justin said:
$0. Don't assume everyone wants ultimate and everything it has to offer.
Fair enough, however...the lowest Vista release doesn't even register on my
radar as it offers absolutely no benefit over XP in any way at all. Not
even useless eyecandy.
That's just to run Vista for the point of running Vista.
Most likely the people are.
Don't know. You're probably the strongest supporter of Vista I've met yet!
Everyone I've talked to personally either on the phone, or in person,
doesn't even want to hear the word Vista.
We just had the owner of a company in today that will be manufacturing
plastic parts for us and I just asked him what CAD packages they were using
and under what OS since I am still evaluating multiple linux alternatives
there. So that kind of sparked Vista there for a moment.
He's trying not to even think about it and the costs and problems that he'll
incur if and when he has to one day switch.
That seems to be a pretty common attitude towards vista with every single
person I interact with.
So tell us, these systems that are out of spec. How old are they and what
are they?
They are anything ranging from 5 months old to 6 years old all currently
running XP across the board. This very system I am using right now included
but here XP is dual-boot and except for the occasional gaming I don't even
boot into XP anymore.
All other systems are currently running XP Only. All operating flawlessly.
These are spread out between my apartment, my parents house and the office
at my parents and all for various different uses.
With the exception of my primary two development machines, they are all
low-end machines.
My latest machine right here being a E6600 Core Duo with 2 gigs ram and a
7800 GT is the only real reasonable candidate that I'd consider Vista on
performance wise.
My other development system which is a P4 3.0GHz with 1 gig of ram with a
6600 would probably be capable of running Vista, but seeing its XP
performance I don't consider it a likely candidate for the performance
level I expect. I run very demanding apps on both those systems so the less
resources the OS uses, the better!
Then all the remaining machines are various aged Pentium 4's ranging from 2
years old to 6 years old. Less than a gig of ram each...and no significant
hardware accelerated video.
They are just machines used for accounting, word processing, e-mail, that
type of stuff. Most might meet the very very lowest spec Vista but seeing
how everything is running XP Professional right now, that'd be a downgrade
just from that standpoint. If I wanted to get a version of Vista that is
considered on the same level as XP Professional...forget about it.
We have run the upgrade advisor on multiple systems...it had complaints on
every single one.
And there are two systems, the 6 yearish old ones, that I simply don't see
Vista running on...but it'd make no sense to replace them just to run a
different OS as they are more than sufficient to do their job.
Peripherals are another major problem.
We've got a HP laser printer sitting around too that is also around the 6
year age mark now I think. Ya seriously think HP will release Vista drivers
for it? But it does its job...
I don't even know if there are any vista drivers for our color laser yet
either. Though if not, that one *might* get some drivers...maybe...
I have a whole bunch of development hardware, j-tag debuggers and the like,
which are not vista supported as there aren't any vista drivers for them at
this point. Will that change? Yea...eventually.
But ya know what? To really be honest...none of this really is my ultimate
problem with Vista. Really, my ultimate problem isn't even with Vista. I
mean sure, it's got no feature that in any way particularly appeals to me
(or anyone I know)...and has plenty of things that don't appeal to me (and
lots of people I know)...but aside that...
My ultimate problem is with Microsoft themselves at this point in time.
The way they are basically forcing this onto everyone. The way they are
trying to milk every last drop out of their customers. You may say users
have a choice, but do they really? Temporarily...yes. But only
temporarily.
DX10 being exclusive to Vista is a choice I don't agree with. And yes, it's
a choice. DX is an interface...making it XP compatible would not be
impossible.
The whole activation crap with the now constant "genuine" monitoring is
something I don't agree with. If my purchase of the software is not good
enough anymore I don't need to buy it at all.
The whole set of guidelines MS is working on imposing on developers on how
to develop their software is something I don't agree with. I am going to
develop my applications the way the work-flow and app makes the most sense,
not the way it looks prettiest in Vista. I mean there are things in those
guidelines that do make sense, I won't disagree. Generally things that a
5th grader with common sense could figure out.　But they are also trying to
put applications that follow their guidelines at certain "advantages" over
applications that don't. Just in terms of marketing for now but...I do try
to think ahead in the future.
The guideline thing doesn't affect me all that much, at this point in time,
as I design specialized apps that don't compete with the mass market...but
I do worry about what it might mean in the future.
Overall, to really boil it down to the real thing that bugs me the most?
I just can no longer agree with MS' overall philosophy. I don't like the
path they are walking down. MS appears to be going down the path that's
called "Our way or get lost"...well...I got lost and chose my own way.
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