Vista is following Windows 95’s path

Thursday, Jun. 28 2007 | Author: Griffith

Ed Bott, from ZDnet, recently wrote a really interesting article about how similar Windows Vista is to Windows 95. Although some people have started calling Vista a failure, or even calling it Windows ME2 (though personally I haven’t heard anyone calling it that), Bott compared Vista with 95, and from the past experience, he tells us what we can expect in the upcoming years.

Here are the similarities between the two:

Unachievable levels of hype

A very long and public beta

Initial compatibility, performance, and stability problems

A beginning, not an end (by this he reffers to the “leap” into 64bit)

And if all continues as it has until now, this is what we can expect (or not) from Vista in the future:

Service Pack 1 won’t work miracles

Businesses will continue to stay away from Vista in droves

Expect a major update Vista update after three years

In short, Microsoft will only get it “right” with Vista after 3 years. And when that happens, people will be craving for a new Operative System that will, most likely, fail to sell as well as Microsoft expected, due to the same problems that Vista had, and so we enter yet another operative system cycle… and so on, and so on…

I wonder if Microsoft can afford to take that path at the rate that Apple and Linux are gaining new users.

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6 Responses for "Vista is following Windows 95’s path"

PaulQ

June 29th, 2007 at 9:01 am
1

One to count whom the’ve lost :-)
To Apple. And Mac OS X.
Martin Johnson

June 29th, 2007 at 11:43 am
2

I think its too early to say whether Vista is doomed. I think transitions to new OSes may not always go smoothly considering the large and diverse hardware and software base that Vista has to take into consideration, unlike Apple. I will say that so far, my Vista experience has been largely positive because my hardware is able to run it with all its bells and whistles.

But some things in Vista are indeed a giant leap into the stone age. Like the damn built-in defragger. The stupid thing is USELESS. Doesnt give me any options and takes forever to defrag my drives (well I hope it defrags, because it doesnt show me anything).

My usage patterns are such that I end up with heavy file fragmentation on two of my drives every 3-4 days. So I bought Diskeeper Pro, and it grinds Vista’s defragger into dust. Lightning quick defrags, has great options for defragging the MFT, boot defrag, and it actually *shows* me what it is doing. The auto defrag mode is cool too..just turn it on and let it defrag automatically in the background when necessary. I wish Microsoft would learn from software such as this on how to make a decent tool.

And yeah, MS, please fix the wifi section too. Sometimes it disconnects from my wifi network for no reason. Usually reconnects after a few seconds, but it is irritating nonethless.
"Nit Picky" Jeff

June 29th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
3

What the hell is an “operative” system? It’s the second post I’ve seen you use that word when refering to an operating system, or OS for short. It’s Operating System, not operative. Stop screwing with my lexicon.

The only time I’ve ever seen the words “operative system” strung together, other than your posts, is on sites translated from portuguese, or posted by people that english is not their first language.
Michael

June 29th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
4

I decided to go to Apple when Microsoft released four different versions of Windows. Apple has one version.
Griffith

June 29th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
5

Sorry Jeff, I use “operative system” a lot because the Portuguese word for it is “sistema operativo”. I will try to refrain from making that mistake in the future, thanks for the heads up.
Jeff

July 1st, 2007 at 5:13 pm
6

Griffith are you Portuguese? I didn’t know honestly, otherwise I never would have said anything about it. Now I feel like an ass, well, more so than normal at any rate. Scratch that, I am an ass. Sorry about that.